Subjectively, it seems the things that are important to track are facts and observations, possibly specific sources (papers, videos), but not your own path or provisional positions expressed at various points along the way. So attention to detail, but not the detail of your own positions or externally expressed statements about them, that’s rarely of any value. You track the things encountered along your own path, so long as they remain relevant and not otherwise, but never the path itself.
If you change your mind about something, then it behooves you to not then behave as if your previous beliefs are bizarre, surprising, and explainable only as deliberate insults or other forms of bad faith.
That’s the broadly accepted norm. My point is that I think it’s a bad norm that damages effectiveness of lightness and does nothing useful.
Alright. Well, I guess we disagree here. I think the broadly accepted norm is good, and what you propose is bad (for the reason I describe in the grandparent comment).
Subjectively, it seems the things that are important to track are facts and observations, possibly specific sources (papers, videos), but not your own path or provisional positions expressed at various points along the way. So attention to detail, but not the detail of your own positions or externally expressed statements about them, that’s rarely of any value. You track the things encountered along your own path, so long as they remain relevant and not otherwise, but never the path itself.
That’s the broadly accepted norm. My point is that I think it’s a bad norm that damages effectiveness of lightness and does nothing useful.
Alright. Well, I guess we disagree here. I think the broadly accepted norm is good, and what you propose is bad (for the reason I describe in the grandparent comment).