As a piece of general feedback: I find your writing useful but hard to understand, even though I have a general sense of how your brain works and what kinds of things you usually say. I think if I didn’t have those, your writing would be pretty much impossible to understand (edit: for counterfactual me, specifically). It’s very dense with jargon that means a lot to you but other people don’t have context on.
My guess is you could fix this by doing something that feels like “dumbing it down almost to the point of uselessness,” so that only very small concepts are presented in each post. In actuality I think this would make it much more useful.
I hope you find a way to make it work, because I think there’s a lot of value in it that is difficult for others to extract.
Thanks. I have considered and tried to implement strategies like that, and I think it’s better for me to do what I’m doing because:
I do model-building primarily for my purposes of using models to decide things in real life. This kind of content, with a bunch of dependencies because it was made based on pulling from my entire worldview, is the content which already exists. The subset which I can link something to explain the dependencies is what I can write in the course of my life which is mostly not about writing, without spending time generating sort-of-related surface-level content. A much larger chunk of the work for doing the writing I’m doing is “free” in that I’m already doing it. And in practice that makes it something that I actually have time to do sometimes.
Also, I think you’d be surprised. I’ve had at least one person who didn’t know me personally get it, I think.
As a piece of general feedback: I find your writing useful but hard to understand, even though I have a general sense of how your brain works and what kinds of things you usually say. I think if I didn’t have those, your writing would be pretty much impossible to understand (edit: for counterfactual me, specifically). It’s very dense with jargon that means a lot to you but other people don’t have context on.
My guess is you could fix this by doing something that feels like “dumbing it down almost to the point of uselessness,” so that only very small concepts are presented in each post. In actuality I think this would make it much more useful.
I hope you find a way to make it work, because I think there’s a lot of value in it that is difficult for others to extract.
Thanks. I have considered and tried to implement strategies like that, and I think it’s better for me to do what I’m doing because:
I do model-building primarily for my purposes of using models to decide things in real life. This kind of content, with a bunch of dependencies because it was made based on pulling from my entire worldview, is the content which already exists. The subset which I can link something to explain the dependencies is what I can write in the course of my life which is mostly not about writing, without spending time generating sort-of-related surface-level content. A much larger chunk of the work for doing the writing I’m doing is “free” in that I’m already doing it. And in practice that makes it something that I actually have time to do sometimes.
Also, I think you’d be surprised. I’ve had at least one person who didn’t know me personally get it, I think.
Yeah, ok, “I don’t have time for that” is definitely a valid response to this.