It’s taken long enough, but I’ve finally realized that it doesn’t matter if I think about things, it doesn’t matter if I have ideas, and it doesn’t matter if I’ve formed opinions if they aren’t in some way shared with the world.
I use a nice piece of software called VoodooPad to jot down all my ideas. It’s like a wiki on your desktop. The big thing about it that I feel is invaluable is that it auto-links what you write. As you write, it pattern matches for other page titles and creates the links for you. It makes it hard to ignore things you’ve written in the past.
If anyone knows of a web-based wiki engine that does this, please let me know.