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title: "Cutting through the noise"
url: https://stanko.io/cutting-through-the-noise-zadsDfjGrxyd
author: Stanko Krtalic Rusendic
published: 2022-11-27
updated: 2026-02-15
tags: [people]
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# Cutting through the noise

I use writing as a tool to organize my thoughts, but lately I have started to
question if that’s the right order to do things.

Writing is thinking. Text is just someone’s thoughts on paper. It’s obvious that
thinking has to come first, but that’s not always the case.

When I sit down to write something I often just have a notion about what I want
to write, and only through the process of writing do I form a full thought. This
process can take days to produce an article. But as I started writing more
consistently, the time required to write an article went down to a few hours.

This week I heard that DHH writes articles in 15min and I was taken aback. I
enjoy his articles, he has a way of explaining things in a clear and forward
way - something I am trying to improve, and which I envy.

The only way I see that this is possible is by sitting down with a fully formed
thought before writing a single word. He’s able to cut through the noise and
distill a thought without the aid of writing.

Have I been putting the carriage before the horse all this time?

Well, yes and no. To write that way I have to trust my self more - something I
see I have been avoiding by using writing as a crutch to verify my thoughts,
double and triple check them. I’m just avoiding criticism, but that means that
my written thoughts are a watered down vanilla version of the real thing. I have
to become bolder in expressing my opinion. Then again, there is nothing wrong
with using writing as a tool from time to time.