I have a Google doc where I write down my business, blog post, and project ideas. I have more than I have time to articulate, and when I get an idea, it just has to come out. So I have to give myself ways to do it where I won’t get too perfectionistic, which is why I am trying to shift from writing things into a Google doc rather than into a LW post. I’m also slowly trying to develop some routine formatting processes to help shape the ideas, both so that it’s easier to write them and so that I can develop a sort of “brand.”
In general, it seems like there’s a progression here from the bottleneck being brainstorming, to the idea being prioritization and efficiency. Understanding where your bottleneck is seems like a key piece of self-understanding for productivity purposes.
One could totally add prioritization features to MetaPrompt, eg, putting weights on things to determine frequency of sampling, making it easy to update the weight later (eg you can easily lower the weight of things when they show up, to say “I want to see this less often”), adding spaced rep type formulae to dynamically adjust the weights according to some goals, …
But yeah, by using metaprompt for creative writing I’m implicitly saying I have particular bottlenecks.
I have a Google doc where I write down my business, blog post, and project ideas. I have more than I have time to articulate, and when I get an idea, it just has to come out. So I have to give myself ways to do it where I won’t get too perfectionistic, which is why I am trying to shift from writing things into a Google doc rather than into a LW post. I’m also slowly trying to develop some routine formatting processes to help shape the ideas, both so that it’s easier to write them and so that I can develop a sort of “brand.”
In general, it seems like there’s a progression here from the bottleneck being brainstorming, to the idea being prioritization and efficiency. Understanding where your bottleneck is seems like a key piece of self-understanding for productivity purposes.
One could totally add prioritization features to MetaPrompt, eg, putting weights on things to determine frequency of sampling, making it easy to update the weight later (eg you can easily lower the weight of things when they show up, to say “I want to see this less often”), adding spaced rep type formulae to dynamically adjust the weights according to some goals, …
But yeah, by using metaprompt for creative writing I’m implicitly saying I have particular bottlenecks.