I have a similar goal. It could be helpful to share my journey thus far and plans for how I want to keep progressing in this direction.
My primary motivation is that reading and writing are foundational skills, and I will directly or indirectly improve many other aspects of my world by enhancing both. Exploring the world of knowledge and creating new knowledge are fun activities in themselves.
I find it challenging to write without material that offers an underlying framework. Therefore, I decided to practice writing book reviews to overcome this obstacle, but ultimately, I would like to progress towards originality.
I have found a correlation between how much effort I put into writing a post and how well people receive it and engage with it. This offers a feedback loop, a crucial component of deliberate practice. To get feedback, write and share.
The posts that become curated on LessWrong tend to have the following (non-exhaustive) characteristics:
Intellectual labour has gone into creating them.
Offering a precise/​constrained understanding of something I had vague intuitions about.
Explaining the cognitive process transparently instead of merely stating conclusions.
I don’t think there is a secret sauce other than learning and practising.
I have a similar goal. It could be helpful to share my journey thus far and plans for how I want to keep progressing in this direction.
My primary motivation is that reading and writing are foundational skills, and I will directly or indirectly improve many other aspects of my world by enhancing both. Exploring the world of knowledge and creating new knowledge are fun activities in themselves.
I find it challenging to write without material that offers an underlying framework. Therefore, I decided to practice writing book reviews to overcome this obstacle, but ultimately, I would like to progress towards originality.
I have found a correlation between how much effort I put into writing a post and how well people receive it and engage with it. This offers a feedback loop, a crucial component of deliberate practice. To get feedback, write and share.
The posts that become curated on LessWrong tend to have the following (non-exhaustive) characteristics:
Intellectual labour has gone into creating them.
Offering a precise/​constrained understanding of something I had vague intuitions about.
Explaining the cognitive process transparently instead of merely stating conclusions.
I don’t think there is a secret sauce other than learning and practising.