I think that suddenly starting to using written media (even journals), in an environment without much or any guidance, is like pressing too hard on the gas; you’re gaining incredible power and going from zero to one on things faster than you ever have before.
Depending on their environment and what they’re interested in starting out, some people might learn (or be shown) how to steer quickly, whereas others might accumulate/scaffold really lopsided optimization power and crash and burn (e.g. getting involved in tons of stuff at once that upon reflection was way too much for someone just starting out).
This seems incredibly interesting to me. Googling “White-boarding techniques” only gives me results about digitally shared idea spaces. Is this what you’re referring to?
I’d love to hear more on this topic.
Note to self, write a post about the novel akrasia solutions I thought up before becoming a rationalist.
Figuring out how to want to want to do things
Personalised advertising of Things I Wanted to Want to Do
What I do when all else fails
Have you tried whiteboarding-related techniques?
I think that suddenly starting to using written media (even journals), in an environment without much or any guidance, is like pressing too hard on the gas; you’re gaining incredible power and going from zero to one on things faster than you ever have before.
Depending on their environment and what they’re interested in starting out, some people might learn (or be shown) how to steer quickly, whereas others might accumulate/scaffold really lopsided optimization power and crash and burn (e.g. getting involved in tons of stuff at once that upon reflection was way too much for someone just starting out).
This seems incredibly interesting to me. Googling “White-boarding techniques” only gives me results about digitally shared idea spaces. Is this what you’re referring to? I’d love to hear more on this topic.
Maybe I could even write a sequence on this?