Often I have an idea three times in various forms before it makes it to territory of, “Well thought out idea that I’m actually acting upon and having good stuff come from it.”
My default, I follow a pattern of, “semi-randomly expose myself to lots of ideas, not worry a lot about screening for repetitive stuff, let the most salient ideas at any given moment float up to receive tid-bits of conscious thought, then forget about them till the next semi-random event triggers it being thought about.”
I’d be interested if there was a better protocol for, “This thing I’ve encountered seems extra important/interesting, let me dwell on it more and more intentionally integrate it into my thinking/”
Ahh, the “meta-thoughts” idea in seems like a useful thing to apply if/when this happens again.
(which begs the questions, when I wrote the above comment, why didn’t I have the meta-thought that I did in the linked comment? (I don’t feel up to thinking about that in this moment)) *tk*
Over the past few months I’ve noticed a very consistent cycle.
Notice something fishy about my models
Struggle and strain until I was able to formulate the extra variable/handle needed to develop the model
Re-read an old post from the sequences and realize “Oh shit, Eliezer wrote a very lucid description of literally this exact same thing.”
What’s surprising is how much I’m surprised by how much this happens.
Often I have an idea three times in various forms before it makes it to territory of, “Well thought out idea that I’m actually acting upon and having good stuff come from it.”
My default, I follow a pattern of, “semi-randomly expose myself to lots of ideas, not worry a lot about screening for repetitive stuff, let the most salient ideas at any given moment float up to receive tid-bits of conscious thought, then forget about them till the next semi-random event triggers it being thought about.”
I’d be interested if there was a better protocol for, “This thing I’ve encountered seems extra important/interesting, let me dwell on it more and more intentionally integrate it into my thinking/”
Ahh, the “meta-thoughts” idea in seems like a useful thing to apply if/when this happens again.
(which begs the questions, when I wrote the above comment, why didn’t I have the meta-thought that I did in the linked comment? (I don’t feel up to thinking about that in this moment)) *tk*