Conversation forces you to articulate what you actually believe about your work. The minute you have to defend a choice in plain language, you discover what you were avoiding.
What changes when you talk about the work
You notice patterns you missed. You hear better questions than you asked yourself. You catch your own clichés. You absorb other people's frameworks. None of this happens scrolling.
Why in-person matters
Tone, pause, eye contact and shared physical space carry information that text never will. An honest in-person critique is unnervingly fast, but it is also unnervingly accurate.