It’s about not wasting people’s time with half-baked ideas.
If you waste someone’s time, that’s not your responsibility, they decided to come over to your blog and lay their eyes on your …research notes, let’s say.
Write immediately and write continuously, as you learn. This will (1) give you practice, so that your writing is much better by the time you have something really good that would deserve good writing, and (2) you get feedback from your friends (if you gently beat it out of them), which will make your progress on your ideas faster.
If I explain my ideas now, I’m going to be embarrassed by it next year.
What if you just honestly report on what’s going on in your head? Not, “folks, I know the Truth, let me lay it out for you,” but “these are the results of my research so far, and these are the half-baked intuitions that I get out of that, at the moment, and this is where I’m planning to go next to sharpen or falsify those intuitions.” Sounds reasonable and non-embarrassing.
Also, the more often you bump your thoughts against the harsh judgement of other people, the faster they sharpen up and the less embarrassing they will be in the long run. Something like that.
If you waste someone’s time, that’s not your responsibility, they decided to come over to your blog and lay their eyes on your …research notes, let’s say.
Write immediately and write continuously, as you learn. This will (1) give you practice, so that your writing is much better by the time you have something really good that would deserve good writing, and (2) you get feedback from your friends (if you gently beat it out of them), which will make your progress on your ideas faster.
What if you just honestly report on what’s going on in your head? Not, “folks, I know the Truth, let me lay it out for you,” but “these are the results of my research so far, and these are the half-baked intuitions that I get out of that, at the moment, and this is where I’m planning to go next to sharpen or falsify those intuitions.” Sounds reasonable and non-embarrassing.
Also, the more often you bump your thoughts against the harsh judgement of other people, the faster they sharpen up and the less embarrassing they will be in the long run. Something like that.