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Personally, small private notes here and there help me ponder without disrupting my stream of thoughts. Without having to… X.
I think both are useful.
Introverts think in private. After that they may share. They need time to think through stuff.
Extroverts think while engaging with others. Sharing supports and facilitates the thought process.
You'll have a different set of pros and cons according to that and where you fall on the scale.
Editing is also a pain.
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It will be better if you get ignorant of public insults.
- You may get feedback on the idea you posted, this could from more experienced people than you and people who deal with your idea. - Valuable insights. - See if the idea or your thoughts have already been executed, you can learn a lot from public thinking.
Now of course, if your idea is very good someone who has more resources than you can implement it. So you can publicly think until you get enough knowledge to get a good idea and then privately think about that.
There are quite a few things that are probably true, but you can't say publicly without attracting a lot of unwanted angry attention. If your line of thinking approaches any of these topics, it makes it difficult to think through the issue in public.
Maybe I'm thinking about this wrong, but getting a lot of angry feedback from what you consider to be axiomatic truths seems like a useful benefit to thinking in public. Lots of topics might attract the occasional troll or disagreement from certain corners, but when your thinking regularly draws the kind of widespread condemnation I suspect you're talking about, a reasonable person might consider how "probably true"…
The truth is not a popularity contest.
I post on LinkedIn, Stack Exchange, and this site using my real name. The benefit of doing so is that I have to keep myself in check and really think before I write - yes, there are edits and deletions - and overall the effect has been very positive for me. Being active on the chemistry SE site has actually proven to be of value in getting jobs related to chemistry - at least 3 employers have said it was useful to se…
Why would anyone need to have the same name as you to impersonate you? They just have to say "I am toddm!", and the internet will generally accept it.