I’ve been thinking recently that prolific LW writers should occasionally go back and do a literature review of their own posts. When I write, I’m usually (not always) presenting freshly-developed thoughts. It’s like a miniature version of Kuhn, where one paradigm replaces another in rapid succession. Many threads are abandoned entirely. I assume others experience something like this too.
It amounts to research debt, where any individual article must be assumed to reflect something to the very primordial beginnings of thought on a subject, with a low prior likelihood of remaining relevant. Hence, there’s a relatively low cost to ignoring individual articles.
But by going back and identifying the areas where you have made sustained intellectual progress, I think it could help address this problem of research debt. It might also help give others a reasonable cause to investigate those threads of yours more closely.
I’ve been thinking recently that prolific LW writers should occasionally go back and do a literature review of their own posts. When I write, I’m usually (not always) presenting freshly-developed thoughts. It’s like a miniature version of Kuhn, where one paradigm replaces another in rapid succession. Many threads are abandoned entirely. I assume others experience something like this too.
It amounts to research debt, where any individual article must be assumed to reflect something to the very primordial beginnings of thought on a subject, with a low prior likelihood of remaining relevant. Hence, there’s a relatively low cost to ignoring individual articles.
But by going back and identifying the areas where you have made sustained intellectual progress, I think it could help address this problem of research debt. It might also help give others a reasonable cause to investigate those threads of yours more closely.