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# write stuff
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- Published: 2026-10-04T12:25:19.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-05T00:20:17.000Z
- Description: So the key is to think about the right stuff and write about the right stuff...
- Author: Andrew Gibson
- Tags: reflection, writing

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  I thought research was about doing stuff
   and I thought I knew how to do stuff 
      and what stuff was right to do.
I found that I needed to think about stuff
   but I didn’t really think 
      that thinking about stuff was doing stuff.
I was also told that I had to write about stuff
   but how do you write about stuff 
      when you don’t know what stuff to write about?
Or if the stuff you write about is the right stuff?

It turns out that thinking about stuff
   is actually doing stuff.
Others think that you are doing stuff all
   unless your write about the stuff 
      that you’re thinking about.
So you write about stuff but you’re still not sure 
   that the stuff you write about is the right stuff.
You know that if you write about the wrong stuff 
   you’re stuffed, and that if you don’t know 
      that the stuff you’re writing about is the wrong stuff 
         then you’re even more stuffed.

So the key is to think about the right stuff
   and write about the right stuff.
When you do that you’ll know that you know the right stuff
  and you will be happier knowing 
      that you know that the stuff that you know is right.
Then you will  write more about the right stuff
   and others will get to know about the stuff that you know
      and you will know that you are right and write about what you know.

(originally written some time between 2013 and 2015)