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On Stating The Obvious | Raymond’s Weblog^

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I think a lot of why I don’t end up writing things is that I fall into the classic trap: When I have a new idea, I don’t feel I’ve thought about it hard enough or grasped it well enough to write about it When I’ve sat with it for long enough to be able to write, it feels too obvious

Raymond's Weblog^ I think a lot of why I don’t end up writing things is that I fall into the classic trap: When I have a new idea, I don’t feel I’ve thought about it hard enough or grasped it well enough to write about it When I’ve sat with it for long enough to be able to write, it feels too obvious Here I’m giving myself a pass because it would be too ironic not to: what follows is my defence of stating the obvious. A brief aside first: what is obvious? There are of course two types of obvious: Type 1: Entirely and immediately obvious Type 2: Obvious only in retrospect (I didn’t…

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