As far as I can tell, this is contradictory advice. First, you want me to tell you why you should care about the distinction that I am drawing (which basically requires an overview of where I am going with a huge topic) then you hit me going the other way when I try to give an overview of where I’m going.
OK, I agree it might be somewhat contradictory.
I think there are two problems:
You’re covering a large and abstract scope which lends itself to glossing over important details and prerequesites (such as clarifying what you mean by the various kinds of goals)
You don’t give us many reasons for paying attention to your approach in particular—will it provide us with new insight? Why is that way of dividing “ways to think about goals” better than another? Is this post supposed to be the basic details on which you’ll build later, or an overview the details of which you’ll fill in later?
OK, I agree it might be somewhat contradictory.
I think there are two problems:
You’re covering a large and abstract scope which lends itself to glossing over important details and prerequesites (such as clarifying what you mean by the various kinds of goals)
You don’t give us many reasons for paying attention to your approach in particular—will it provide us with new insight? Why is that way of dividing “ways to think about goals” better than another? Is this post supposed to be the basic details on which you’ll build later, or an overview the details of which you’ll fill in later?