Since 9/27/2011, I have read up until On Expressing Your Concerns. This is the 204th post. I was previously at the 185th post, Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs which means in the past 6 days I have read 19 posts. This is slightly below my desired average of four posts per day, but I was out of town without internet access for a couple of days this week, which to me serves as an acceptable excuse for being approximately one day behind.
Do you have any sort of rule to determine whether or not your acceptance of excuses is acceptable?
(Said somewhat humorously, but standard advice from things like NaNoWriMo is that excuses have a tendency to spiral if you don’t have a hard and fast limit for them. It’s typical for people to think that they can double down and do better later, which is a manifestation of the planning fallacy, and so it’s typically better to set a goal of, say, 5 posts a day so that when you do only read 3 a day for a week, you’re eating the buffer you made rather than going into debt.)
No, I really don’t, but if you have suggestions, I’ll take them. As I said in the OP, my rate tends to be very inconsistent, and I will read for long periods at a time, perhaps twenty posts or more, and then not read for a week.
Since 9/27/2011, I have read up until On Expressing Your Concerns. This is the 204th post. I was previously at the 185th post, Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs which means in the past 6 days I have read 19 posts. This is slightly below my desired average of four posts per day, but I was out of town without internet access for a couple of days this week, which to me serves as an acceptable excuse for being approximately one day behind.
Do you have any sort of rule to determine whether or not your acceptance of excuses is acceptable?
(Said somewhat humorously, but standard advice from things like NaNoWriMo is that excuses have a tendency to spiral if you don’t have a hard and fast limit for them. It’s typical for people to think that they can double down and do better later, which is a manifestation of the planning fallacy, and so it’s typically better to set a goal of, say, 5 posts a day so that when you do only read 3 a day for a week, you’re eating the buffer you made rather than going into debt.)
No, I really don’t, but if you have suggestions, I’ll take them. As I said in the OP, my rate tends to be very inconsistent, and I will read for long periods at a time, perhaps twenty posts or more, and then not read for a week.