I really liked this post in 2020, and I really like this post now. I wish I had actually carved this groove into my habits of thoguht. I’m working on doing that now.
One complaint: I find the bolded “This post is not about that topic.” to be distracting. I recommend unbolding, and perhaps removing the part from “This post” through “that difference.”
Re: your second paragraph, I was (and am) of the opinion that, given the first sentence, readers were in danger of being sucked down into their thoughts on the object-level topic before they would even reach the meta-level point. So I gave a hard disclaimer then and there.
Your mileage varied, of course, but I model more people as having been saved by the warning lights than blinded by them.
I really liked this post in 2020, and I really like this post now. I wish I had actually carved this groove into my habits of thoguht. I’m working on doing that now.
One complaint: I find the bolded “This post is not about that topic.” to be distracting. I recommend unbolding, and perhaps removing the part from “This post” through “that difference.”
Thank you!
Re: your second paragraph, I was (and am) of the opinion that, given the first sentence, readers were in danger of being sucked down into their thoughts on the object-level topic before they would even reach the meta-level point. So I gave a hard disclaimer then and there.
Your mileage varied, of course, but I model more people as having been saved by the warning lights than blinded by them.