Writing is not the product of thinking; writing is thinking

2025-07-19 · writing

For many people, writing seems like a daunting task.

This is unfortunate, since getting through life often involves writing: writing your thesis for an undergraduate degree, writing a report at a job, writing an email to a prospective business partner.

Writing requires clarifying your thoughts into terms concrete enough to communicate with other people. In doing so, you are also clarifying your own thinking to yourself.

Clear writing requires clear thinking. Putting thoughts and arguments into written form leaves no place for wishful thinking and unfounded beliefs to hide.

A third element, in addition to thinking and writing, is learning.

During our education, we are often encouraged to write, not just to think about it. This is not by accident: thinking, writing and learning are all intertwined.

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Hi, I'm Victor -- a Brazilian computer engineer at Microsoft with 7+ years of industry experience architecting and building highly polished software. I enjoy deep technical dives, hard problems, and working across all layers of the stack. My work centers on robust, cloud-based, distributed systems and web-based applications that serve millions of users.