I’m not quite sure what Ben/Oli have in mind (I’m not very involved with this project so far). But:
I haven’t successfully “wrote a Blogpost™” every day, during periods I didn’t have pent up ideas (I haven’t tried). But, I have done “do a lot of thinking/reading/ideating each day, and then, spend an hour writing it up explaining my thoughts to the Lightcone Team”, and this basically was successfully in provoking a lot of thoughts I hadn’t thought before, and the process of writing them up did further help crystallize them.
In my model, the problem with the bare “write and publish a lot” is that it pushes for optimizing legibility a lot. Which is good if you have already thought through stuff and need to express them cleanly, and less good if you are trying to actually come up with ideas.
The situation you describe lowers the pressure of legibility in two ways: by giving you more space during the day (this is mot writing a blogpost in an hour outside of work) and by having an audience that is much closer to you than the general online audience.
I’m not quite sure what Ben/Oli have in mind (I’m not very involved with this project so far). But:
I haven’t successfully “wrote a Blogpost™” every day, during periods I didn’t have pent up ideas (I haven’t tried). But, I have done “do a lot of thinking/reading/ideating each day, and then, spend an hour writing it up explaining my thoughts to the Lightcone Team”, and this basically was successfully in provoking a lot of thoughts I hadn’t thought before, and the process of writing them up did further help crystallize them.
What you describe makes sense.
In my model, the problem with the bare “write and publish a lot” is that it pushes for optimizing legibility a lot. Which is good if you have already thought through stuff and need to express them cleanly, and less good if you are trying to actually come up with ideas.
The situation you describe lowers the pressure of legibility in two ways: by giving you more space during the day (this is mot writing a blogpost in an hour outside of work) and by having an audience that is much closer to you than the general online audience.