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David Chapman

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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 25 Oct 2019
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      I don't agree! The problem with writing is that there's no upper bound on how good you can/want to be, so you're constantly in transition between conscious and unconscious competence, but as soon as you've made that transition you find new things to improve.

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    2. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 25 Oct 2019
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      The trick to spoon free writing is satisficing: write less well than you are able to and find a way to be comfortable with that.

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    3. John Nerst‏ @everytstudies 25 Oct 2019
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      Yeah... I have difficulty with that.

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    4. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 25 Oct 2019
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      I found it very helpful to have a second blog that's explicitly for low quality writing.

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    5. John Nerst‏ @everytstudies 25 Oct 2019
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      The thought just fills me with an even greater sense of responsibility, I fear. Like, I don't want to waste effort.

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    6. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 25 Oct 2019
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      Would you find speaking into a recorder easier and just treating those as unpublished drafts? I don't do it often but I find it quite helpful when I do.

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    7. John Nerst‏ @everytstudies 25 Oct 2019
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      Oh dear :) Then I would only be able to do it in private, and there goes 90% of my writing opportunities. If only I could record my internal monologue. I think the only answer is training to overcome that initial bump.

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    8. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 25 Oct 2019
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      Well the idea is that the audio version is a first draft that gets you over the high spoon cost of writing one, and you can then later turn it into written form.

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 25 Oct 2019
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      I’ve heard people suggesting various tricks for accomplishing the same with a keyboard. Some mechanism to make rereading and editing impossible during the first draft. White text on a white background, or vertically narrowing the window to a single line of text e.g.

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    10. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 25 Oct 2019
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      Whoops, sorry, I’ve now caught up to t=0 and see that this is irrelevant to @everytstudies

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 25 Oct 2019
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      Replying to @Meaningness @DRMacIver @everytstudies

      I also do the working out of difficulties in background mode (hikes are especially good); but also find that some conceptual structures are too large for that. Paging The Eggplant into RAM takes three days of intensive work (which is why there’s been zero progress in a year)

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        2. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 25 Oct 2019
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          Yeah, this is really only a technique that works for blog post length things, or isolatable fragments of a larger work.

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 25 Oct 2019
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          The Eggplant has extraordinarily dense internal connectivity. Much more anything else I’ve written or probably even read. It’s fully linearized now, but making the back and forward pointers seem transparent for the reader is the challenge.

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