Being slow at writing can be sign of failure or winning, depending on the exact reasons why you’re slow. I’d worry about being “too good” at writing, since that’d be evidence that your brain is conforming your thoughts to the language, instead of conforming your language to your thoughts. English is just a really poor medium for thought (at least compared to e.g. visuals and pre-word intuitive representations), so it’s potentially dangerous to care overmuch about it.
Btw, Aaron is another person-recommendation. He’s awesome. Has really strong self-insight, goodness-of-heart, creativity. (Twitter profile, blog+podcast, EAF, links.) I haven’t personally learned a whole bunch from him yet,[2] but I expect if he continues being what he is, he’ll produce lots of cool stuff which I’ll learn from later.
Edit: I now recall that I’ve learned from him: screwworms (important), and the ubiquity of left-handed chirality in nature (mildly important). He also caused me to look into two-envelopes paradox, which was usefwl for me.
Although I later learned about screwworms from Kevin Esvelt at 80kh podcast, so I would’ve learned it anyway. And I also later learned about left-handed chirality from Steve Mould on YT, but I may not have reflected on it as much.
Aaron Bergman has a vid of himself typing new sentences in real-time, which I found really helpfwl.[1] I wish I could watch lots of people record themselves typing, so I could compare what I do.
Being slow at writing can be sign of failure or winning, depending on the exact reasons why you’re slow. I’d worry about being “too good” at writing, since that’d be evidence that your brain is conforming your thoughts to the language, instead of conforming your language to your thoughts. English is just a really poor medium for thought (at least compared to e.g. visuals and pre-word intuitive representations), so it’s potentially dangerous to care overmuch about it.
Btw, Aaron is another person-recommendation. He’s awesome. Has really strong self-insight, goodness-of-heart, creativity. (Twitter profile, blog+podcast, EAF, links.) I haven’t personally learned a whole bunch from him yet,[2] but I expect if he continues being what he is, he’ll produce lots of cool stuff which I’ll learn from later.
Edit: I now recall that I’ve learned from him: screwworms (important), and the ubiquity of left-handed chirality in nature (mildly important). He also caused me to look into two-envelopes paradox, which was usefwl for me.
Although I later learned about screwworms from Kevin Esvelt at 80kh podcast, so I would’ve learned it anyway. And I also later learned about left-handed chirality from Steve Mould on YT, but I may not have reflected on it as much.
Thank you, that is all very kind! ☺️☺️☺️
I hope so haha
Record yourself typing?
EDIT: I uploaded a better example here (18m18s):
Old example still here (7m25s).
Ah, most relevant: Paul Graham has a recording-of-sorts of himself writing a blog post “Startups in 13 sentences”.