A personal insight
This sentence just came to me: "I prefer to think in writing, and I prefer to write in public."
Thinking in writing and writing in public makes my thinking better.
I know that "public" implies an anonymous, general public. Just anyone who might happen along the street, it doesn't matter who. But I don't feel it that way. Especially when I write here, I do not imagine a faceless mob of people. I actually imagine an extended group of people, each symbolized in a manner illustrated (not comprehensively) below:
Something in my head discourages this though. Many things, in fact. A cognitive storm inside my skull that pushes things into a pit of distraction and forgetting. Russia. AI. Cybercriminals. Stories that are not mine to tell. One moment I have words that I want to share. And soon after, I have tension, brain fog, and longing for the comfort of distraction.
Just stop typing. Scroll. Play a game. Watch a video. You will feel relief.
I prefer to think in writing. I prefer to write in public.