I analyze essays: I’ll find an essay I really like and then go through it paragraph by paragraph, trying to figure out what makes it so good. I have no formal training in composition above English 101 and 102, so it’s been a long journey of finding out things that people have been talking about for centuries. Above all, it has been slowly changing the way I see written texts because now I’m able to discern parts that I couldn’t see before.
I analyze essays: I’ll find an essay I really like and then go through it paragraph by paragraph, trying to figure out what makes it so good. I have no formal training in composition above English 101 and 102, so it’s been a long journey of finding out things that people have been talking about for centuries. Above all, it has been slowly changing the way I see written texts because now I’m able to discern parts that I couldn’t see before.
For some time, I also analyzed my daily work ([wrote about it here](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MAM3pdncCWBrkhnxq/watching-myself-program)), but I’ve put that on hold because things became too hectic at work (and I’m also changing jobs).