I read this a year or two ago, tucked it in the back of my mind, and continued with life.
When I reread it today, I suddenly realized oh duh, I’ve been banging my head against this on X for months
This is close to my experience. Constructing a narrative from hazy memories:
First read: “Oh, some nitpicky stuff about metaphors, not really my cup of tea”. *Just skims through*
Second read: “Okay it wasn’t just metaphors. Not that I really get it; maybe the point about different people doing different amount of distinctions is good”
Third read (after reading Screwtape’s review): “Okay well I haven’t been ‘banging my head against this’, but examples of me making important-to-me distinctions that others don’t get do come to mind”. [1] (Surely that goes just one way, eh?)
Fourth read (now a few days later): “The color blindness metaphor fits so well to those thoughts I’ve had; I’m gonna use that”.
Reading this log one could think that there’s some super deep hidden insight in the text. Not really: the post is quite straightforward, but somehow it took me a couple of rounds to get it.
This is close to my experience. Constructing a narrative from hazy memories:
First read: “Oh, some nitpicky stuff about metaphors, not really my cup of tea”. *Just skims through*
Second read: “Okay it wasn’t just metaphors. Not that I really get it; maybe the point about different people doing different amount of distinctions is good”
Third read (after reading Screwtape’s review): “Okay well I haven’t been ‘banging my head against this’, but examples of me making important-to-me distinctions that others don’t get do come to mind”. [1] (Surely that goes just one way, eh?)
Fourth read (now a few days later): “The color blindness metaphor fits so well to those thoughts I’ve had; I’m gonna use that”.
Reading this log one could think that there’s some super deep hidden insight in the text. Not really: the post is quite straightforward, but somehow it took me a couple of rounds to get it.
If you are interested: one example I had in mind was the distinction between inferences and observations, which I found more important in the context than another party did.