michael_nielsen

What I have in mind is writing, and since that also involves thinking hard I suspect unconscious competence is tricky to achieve.

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.

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.

Yeah... I have difficulty with that.

I found it very helpful to have a second blog that's explicitly for low quality writing.

The thought just fills me with an even greater sense of responsibility, I fear. Like, I don't want to waste effort.

Would you find speaking into a recorder easier and just treating those as unpublished drafts?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.

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.