Adam Becker

Not just the process, but also the sort of like intellectual ownership.

I don't mean like, you know, in the like intellectual property sense, but like... Yeah, like the I wrote this thing.

Yeah, and like the way that you know something when you wrote it that you can't know even if you were there for the editing, like...

I know, I mean, you know, I'm getting older as we all do until we die.

And as I get older, my memory is, you know, not as good as it used to be.

I think it's still pretty good.

But, you know, I have trouble remembering all sorts of things that I didn't used to have trouble remembering.

But I know the stuff that I've written inside and out because I was in there, you know, in the trenches with it, writing it.

Yeah.

And and so I know it, you know, chapter and verse.

Why would you give up having that kind of knowledge of your own work and your own thinking?

Well, that's the thing for me.

No, I mean, I just don't understand...

Because, like, if you don't write it, then you're not thinking your way through it.

And like, yeah, OK, I go into writing something and I have sort of an idea of what it's going to be.

But it's as I write it that I realize what I actually think about these things.

And I get to a spot in the writing where I'm stuck and I realize, oh, I'm stuck because there was something that I thought I understood or didn't.

Two ideas that I thought were connected and now I'm realizing the connection is is less clear or my understanding is less good than I thought it was.

And so I have to sit down and work it out or I have to go check an idea that I realized I was taking for granted and maybe it wasn't true.

And like that.