Consider writing your thoughts in a personal blog, often and without procrastinating, and link it here when you feel it’s good enough for others here to read. That’s how many regulars here operate.
I’ve been doing the “shortform-feed” thing that many people have been doing on the site.
Just to be sure, you’re not encouraging this as a norm for everyone, in other words, people who feel comfortable just posting short articles to their “personal” blog on LW should still do so?
FWIW I argue with habryka a lot that it’s pretty important that personal-blogposts feel like a place you can write off the cuff ideas and that I’m worried that he himself doesn’t feel comfortable doing so.
(That said, it’s still understandable that he doesn’t.)
Yep, I am only encouraging this as something that might make people feel even more comfortable. Short ideas as top-level posts on your personal blog are definitely encouraged.
I second having a shortform feed! I try to collect a lot of “minimum intriguing ideas”. One way I interact with my shortform is to not work on a post over time. If I have a brief nugget of an idea that seems like it might be self contained or interesting, I try to just force it out. If I get it, great. If I get a mess, I ditch it and don’t worry about coming back to finish it later.
(Note: this was a comment on how I shortform, not really my advice for toon)
Consider writing your thoughts in a personal blog, often and without procrastinating, and link it here when you feel it’s good enough for others here to read. That’s how many regulars here operate.
I’ve been doing the “shortform-feed” thing that many people have been doing on the site. I’ve found it to work quite well.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EQJfdqSaMcJyR5k73/habryka-s-shortform-feed
Just to be sure, you’re not encouraging this as a norm for everyone, in other words, people who feel comfortable just posting short articles to their “personal” blog on LW should still do so?
FWIW I argue with habryka a lot that it’s pretty important that personal-blogposts feel like a place you can write off the cuff ideas and that I’m worried that he himself doesn’t feel comfortable doing so.
(That said, it’s still understandable that he doesn’t.)
Yep, I am only encouraging this as something that might make people feel even more comfortable. Short ideas as top-level posts on your personal blog are definitely encouraged.
I second having a shortform feed! I try to collect a lot of “minimum intriguing ideas”. One way I interact with my shortform is to not work on a post over time. If I have a brief nugget of an idea that seems like it might be self contained or interesting, I try to just force it out. If I get it, great. If I get a mess, I ditch it and don’t worry about coming back to finish it later. (Note: this was a comment on how I shortform, not really my advice for toon)