Forgetting
Socrates would say - I told ya so
Or would it be Plato?
Plato was the one who wrote stuff down, not Socrates, and I wonder if he wrote stuff down for the same reason I do (I doubt it ... for us, writing is a different process, etc etc)
But I write for myself, for my memory, because the moment I write something, and I put it out there, I can safely forget it.
And I build my brain outside my skull, and I know where I can trace the trail later if I want or need to
Many times it's just ephemera, and I ultimately won't need it
I wrote down: "We learn by forgetting"... we have to forget all the trash that ultimately was wrong or meaningless... or just filled up our skull with noise.
So I write it down so I can forget.