I upvoted this highly for the review. I think of this as a canonical reference post now for the sort of writing I want to see on LessWrong. This post identified an important problem I’ve seen a lot of people struggle with, and writes out clear instructions for it.
I guess a question I have is “how many people read this and had it actually help them write more quickly?”. I’ve personally found the post somewhat helpful, but I think mostly already had the skill.
how many people read this and had it actually help them write more quickly?
I think I sorta implicitly already knew what this post is saying, and thus the value of this post for me was in crystalizing that implicit knowledge into explicit knowledge that I could articulate / reflect on / notice / etc.
I can’t recall a situation where this post “actually helped me write more quickly”. I vaguely recall that there were times that this post popped into my head while thinking about whether or not to write something at all, and maybe how to phrase and structure it.
I think in my case it’s more likely the post helped me write more rigorously, rather than quickly. i.e. by default I write quickly without much rigor, and this post pointed a cheap-ish way to include more epistemic handholds.
I upvoted this highly for the review. I think of this as a canonical reference post now for the sort of writing I want to see on LessWrong. This post identified an important problem I’ve seen a lot of people struggle with, and writes out clear instructions for it.
I guess a question I have is “how many people read this and had it actually help them write more quickly?”. I’ve personally found the post somewhat helpful, but I think mostly already had the skill.
I think I sorta implicitly already knew what this post is saying, and thus the value of this post for me was in crystalizing that implicit knowledge into explicit knowledge that I could articulate / reflect on / notice / etc.
I can’t recall a situation where this post “actually helped me write more quickly”. I vaguely recall that there were times that this post popped into my head while thinking about whether or not to write something at all, and maybe how to phrase and structure it.
I think in my case it’s more likely the post helped me write more rigorously, rather than quickly. i.e. by default I write quickly without much rigor, and this post pointed a cheap-ish way to include more epistemic handholds.