If you can't find it, it needs to be written

Lots of this brought to mind ideas put forward in How to Take Smart Notes.

many of us have been tricked into thinking that something only needs to be said once.

The fear of being more incomplete than an imagined other-expert.

I’d also add - the fear of being flat out wrong.

people notice small information gaps much more readily than they notice vast information voids

It’s easier to question, build on, compare to, and scrutinise an existing thought than it is to build an idea from nothing.

By experimenting with what has been said and re-performing research, we validate and verify and innovate to try to make what we’re perpetuating forward more valuable than what came before.