I find myself wanting to link to your post occasionally btw, but, I actually find the post doesn’t really convey anything that the title didn’t already, and what I want is a post that’s more like fleshing out the vague poetry of not-getting-eaten with practical “here are some concrete examples of what people looked like when they were getting eaten, and what they should have done instead.”
I think most people being eaten don’t think of themselves as being eaten, and I want a post that helps those people more to find a better frame than the one they’re getting consumed by.
Those are reasonable things to want, though I disagree that the post doesn’t convey anything more [ETA: unless you mean that it’s poorly written, which I could agree with haha IDK]; actually every paragraph conveys something important and nontrivial. The three rationalizations aren’t vague poetry about the general; they’re actual things that people use to justify being eaten, and which people could therefore notice in order to notice that they are letting themselves be eaten—even if they don’t think of themselves as such. But anyway, yeah, there’s much better / more useful versions of that post that someone could and should write :)
An alternate ask maybe then is: it could use a paragraph that more expressly acknowledges disagreement/confusion about what being eaten is. The three existing paragraphs do each convey specific excuses people have but they are presume at least some awareness that “being eaten” is what’s happening.
I can’t tell if you’re actually asking me to edit it; if so that’s a fine/good thing to ask, but in this case, and probably usually, my answer to a request like that would be:
That’s reasonable but I don’t want to revisit it because I would only want to engage with this topic in some depth, or not at all, and I don’t have in-depth time. Feel free to quote/remix (with general attribution for copying anything ~sentence-length or longer).
In general, for many activities, I’m somewhat of a “container ship”, by which I mean, slow to turn in some direction (turn my attention, turn my thinking, turn my efforts, turn my loyalty, etc.), but once turned I’m high-inertia (hard to turn away, determined, etc.).
I think I am “suggesting you edit it, if it seems good by your lights”, and flagging that I’d like someone else to write a post that does the thing I want, not necessarily you.
I find myself wanting to link to your post occasionally btw, but, I actually find the post doesn’t really convey anything that the title didn’t already, and what I want is a post that’s more like fleshing out the vague poetry of not-getting-eaten with practical “here are some concrete examples of what people looked like when they were getting eaten, and what they should have done instead.”
I think most people being eaten don’t think of themselves as being eaten, and I want a post that helps those people more to find a better frame than the one they’re getting consumed by.
Those are reasonable things to want, though I disagree that the post doesn’t convey anything more [ETA: unless you mean that it’s poorly written, which I could agree with haha IDK]; actually every paragraph conveys something important and nontrivial. The three rationalizations aren’t vague poetry about the general; they’re actual things that people use to justify being eaten, and which people could therefore notice in order to notice that they are letting themselves be eaten—even if they don’t think of themselves as such. But anyway, yeah, there’s much better / more useful versions of that post that someone could and should write :)
Mmm nod I see it.
An alternate ask maybe then is: it could use a paragraph that more expressly acknowledges disagreement/confusion about what being eaten is. The three existing paragraphs do each convey specific excuses people have but they are presume at least some awareness that “being eaten” is what’s happening.
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I can’t tell if you’re actually asking me to edit it; if so that’s a fine/good thing to ask, but in this case, and probably usually, my answer to a request like that would be:
In general, for many activities, I’m somewhat of a “container ship”, by which I mean, slow to turn in some direction (turn my attention, turn my thinking, turn my efforts, turn my loyalty, etc.), but once turned I’m high-inertia (hard to turn away, determined, etc.).
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I think I am “suggesting you edit it, if it seems good by your lights”, and flagging that I’d like someone else to write a post that does the thing I want, not necessarily you.
Seems fine for you to be like “nah.”