Discover incidental and essential complexity by keeping a zettelkasten

Iterating on complex ideas allows us to find simplicity. One way of structuring your writing in order to allow this iteration is by building a permanant note collection such as a zettelkasten.

Writing can be thinking, and a zettelkasten requires that the writer deconstructs their ideas into smaller pieces, and build up links between them. Writing around an idea builds up context, which can help to figure out which parts of an idea are essentially complex and which parts are only incidentally complex.