Michael Nielsen: writing 50 paragraphs isn't 50x harder — scaling is nonlinear
michael_nielsen · x · 2026-09-07
Michael Nielsen notes that from a writer's perspective, writing 50 paragraphs is not 50 times harder than writing 1 — the scaling is highly nonlinear, somehow representing all the nonlocal content. He adds he practices both incremental reading and writing extensively.
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