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On the topic of low-level tips: IMO it helps to always try to read one's writing as if speaking it out loud. If the text doesn't flow well when spoken, then it's not good. Like, long-winded parentheses in the middle of a sentence are not good. Sure, the text won't look like those highbrow publications where you flex your mnemonic palaces just to remember what the sentence was about when it started—but at least actual…
For a long time I've tried to speed up my reading my turning off the `sub-vocalizing' machine in my mind, only to realize that sub-vocalizing actually helps understand the meaning of technical/math texts better. On a relevant note: There was a post on HN a while ago which basically was about how using language (and probably, speaking out loud) is actually a `feature' or `technology' of human mind. For long, we have b…
I’ve recently realized I do the exact same thing with speech — I’ll talk without thinking, forming sentences out of heuristic systems, and process them after the fact. Then tune the sentence slightly, and continue.
In this fashion, I produce sentences without really knowing what I’ve said, until I think about it later. In much the same way that I drive long distances on auto-pilot, and can’t even remember anything of the route by the end of it.
And those sentences often have ideas that I’ve never actually put together intentionally, but I completely agree with, and upon review, are correct to the best of my knowledge.
I don’t know what speech is, but it’s definitely more than vocalization of my thoughts.