TL;DR - mapping the ideas in a rough draft, setting one as the core idea, and then seeing which of my other ideas contradict my core idea help me write a better essay.
I took Elad Gil's essay "Random thoughts while gazing at the misty AI Frontier" and put it into this little "idea map" tool I built.
It's fun to see how the random thoughts connect. A lot of rough drafts start like this, with many ideas going many directions.
By setting any bubble as the core idea, the underlying LLM will surface "tensions" with your other minor ideas.