Writing is thinking. I don t think this is an especially disputed claim.Every day we on HN (along with every other social medium) are treated to largely generated think pieces from presumptive thought leaders. Sometimes there s more evidence of human fingerprints on the ideas at issue, and sometimes it s clear that wading through the slop will yield nothing new, interesting or useful.Addy Osmani s blog (and substack) is the clearest example of this. Here s someone who has multiple books published under his name - pre-LLM! Now his online properties are a total morass of slop - complete with a painfully self-aggrandizing slop biography celebrating its subject as nothing short of a shaper of the modern Internet.What it doesn t seem to have is any original thoughts, just the same recycled trash about how building with agents and how we re in a new normal. Dull as dishwater and half as practical.Bigger picture: I am concerned that the culture - such as it is - is not normalizing the things that will serve us well in the future.