I have a lot of drafts that are currently written as bullet-point outlines. They contain essentially all relevant information, and arguably I could publish them as-is, but I don’t know how comprehensible they will be, so I want to fill in the details.
There are two low-effort solutions:
Publish the bullet point outline.
Downside: Maybe it only makes sense in my head and nobody will know what I’m trying to say.
Downside: I have no filter when I write outlines. Sometimes my outline says something like “idea X is stupid”, and the thing I end up publishing is “A carefully reasoned critical analysis of idea X (credence: 90%)” (I try to be explicit about what I believe, but that doesn’t mean I have to be rude about it)
Downside: Posting bullet point outlines feels low-status or something idk.
Feed it into an LLM and ask it to write a full post.
Downside: LLMs are considerably worse at writing than I am (as of June 2025...we’ll see where we’re at next month).
I’ve tried doing this in the past and I disliked the results, although I think it would be possible to get better results if I knew how to prompt the LLM into writing in a better style.
I could publish more posts if there were a good and easy way to convert outlines into posts.
I have a lot of drafts that are currently written as bullet-point outlines. They contain essentially all relevant information, and arguably I could publish them as-is, but I don’t know how comprehensible they will be, so I want to fill in the details.
There are two low-effort solutions:
Publish the bullet point outline.
Downside: Maybe it only makes sense in my head and nobody will know what I’m trying to say.
Downside: I have no filter when I write outlines. Sometimes my outline says something like “idea X is stupid”, and the thing I end up publishing is “A carefully reasoned critical analysis of idea X (credence: 90%)” (I try to be explicit about what I believe, but that doesn’t mean I have to be rude about it)
Downside: Posting bullet point outlines feels low-status or something idk.
Feed it into an LLM and ask it to write a full post.
Downside: LLMs are considerably worse at writing than I am (as of June 2025...we’ll see where we’re at next month).
I’ve tried doing this in the past and I disliked the results, although I think it would be possible to get better results if I knew how to prompt the LLM into writing in a better style.
I could publish more posts if there were a good and easy way to convert outlines into posts.