The responses I’ve received suggest that the phrase “systematic lucky breaks” resonates with a lot of people. But I think it would be helpful if you were to take the Beeminder/StickK idea and write a post specifically on that topic. And it would probably resonate with a segment of Less Wrong for whom my post doesn’t work.
Perhaps… though I’m not sure if another Beeminder post would be helpful at LW. I guess I’d need to look through what has already been written and see if there is anything I might be able to add. We’ll see.
And I’m not sure if the title or the article resonates with LW at all. It may, but it depends on what you mean by “resonates” and what the comments and votes mean.
As I mentioned in my first comment, I’m unclear on what X upvotes means at LW. Most of the commentary seems to be a discussion about martial arts… or our discussion about the merits and focus of the article.
If there is some rationale for a threshold for upvotes above which we can confidently say that an article is good/useful/novel/clear/appropriately-titled, then I’m certainly willing to take that into consideration. As it stands, I frankly have little clue what X upvotes and Y total comments indicates about an article’s ability to map the territory.
In any case, I’ll vote it up one more right now for providing the catalyst to an interesting discussion with you. :) (I’m not sure if that’s a valid reason to use the thumb’s up button, but it seems as good as any...)
Also, I should clarify on my suggestion for a title—Since, upon our further discussion, it seems your point was implementing a systematic approach to “doing things that work”, I meant to suggest you rename the post and add some clarifying language in the post about using accountability/akrasia-fighting tools like commitment contracts via Beeminder or StickK. Renaming the post without adding the requisite language in the post would be kinda silly.
The responses I’ve received suggest that the phrase “systematic lucky breaks” resonates with a lot of people. But I think it would be helpful if you were to take the Beeminder/StickK idea and write a post specifically on that topic. And it would probably resonate with a segment of Less Wrong for whom my post doesn’t work.
Perhaps… though I’m not sure if another Beeminder post would be helpful at LW. I guess I’d need to look through what has already been written and see if there is anything I might be able to add. We’ll see.
And I’m not sure if the title or the article resonates with LW at all. It may, but it depends on what you mean by “resonates” and what the comments and votes mean.
As I mentioned in my first comment, I’m unclear on what X upvotes means at LW. Most of the commentary seems to be a discussion about martial arts… or our discussion about the merits and focus of the article.
If there is some rationale for a threshold for upvotes above which we can confidently say that an article is good/useful/novel/clear/appropriately-titled, then I’m certainly willing to take that into consideration. As it stands, I frankly have little clue what X upvotes and Y total comments indicates about an article’s ability to map the territory.
In any case, I’ll vote it up one more right now for providing the catalyst to an interesting discussion with you. :) (I’m not sure if that’s a valid reason to use the thumb’s up button, but it seems as good as any...)
Also, I should clarify on my suggestion for a title—Since, upon our further discussion, it seems your point was implementing a systematic approach to “doing things that work”, I meant to suggest you rename the post and add some clarifying language in the post about using accountability/akrasia-fighting tools like commitment contracts via Beeminder or StickK. Renaming the post without adding the requisite language in the post would be kinda silly.