I’m not really sure what goal you were trying to achieve by branching off into so many different topics in a single post instead of creating separate post
I think in my ideal world this was a series of blogposts that I actually expected people to read all of. Part of the reason it’s all one post is that I didn’t expect people to reliably get all of them.
Partly, I think each individual piece is necessary. Also, kind of the point of pieces like this are to be sort of guided meditations on a topic that let you sit with it long enough, and approach it from enough different angles, that a foreign way of thinking has time to seep into your brain and get digested.
I expected people would mostly not believe me without the concrete practical examples, but the concrete examples are (necessarily) meandering because that’s what the process was actually like (you should expect the process of transmitting soulful knowledge to feel some-kind-of-meandering, at least a fair amount of the time).
I wanted to make sure people got the warnings at the same time that they got the “how to” manual – if I separated the warnings into a separate post, people might only read the more memetically successful “how to” posts.
I do suspect I could write a much shorter version that gets across the basic idea, but I don’t expect the basic idea to actually be very useful because each of the 20 skills is pretty deep, and conveying what it’s like to use them all at once is just necessarily complicated.
I think in my ideal world this was a series of blogposts that I actually expected people to read all of. Part of the reason it’s all one post is that I didn’t expect people to reliably get all of them.
Partly, I think each individual piece is necessary. Also, kind of the point of pieces like this are to be sort of guided meditations on a topic that let you sit with it long enough, and approach it from enough different angles, that a foreign way of thinking has time to seep into your brain and get digested.
I expected people would mostly not believe me without the concrete practical examples, but the concrete examples are (necessarily) meandering because that’s what the process was actually like (you should expect the process of transmitting soulful knowledge to feel some-kind-of-meandering, at least a fair amount of the time).
I wanted to make sure people got the warnings at the same time that they got the “how to” manual – if I separated the warnings into a separate post, people might only read the more memetically successful “how to” posts.
I do suspect I could write a much shorter version that gets across the basic idea, but I don’t expect the basic idea to actually be very useful because each of the 20 skills is pretty deep, and conveying what it’s like to use them all at once is just necessarily complicated.