So, I’m taking the low karma score of this post as a signal that people are losing interest in the luminosity sequence and I should shut up instead of posting the remainder. Would anyone care to confirm or deny?
Please keep posting anything you’ve already prepared. I’m just skimming the more recent posts in the series but mostly because I have already spent years on luminosity and have discovered what works for me. (Which is somewhat different from what works for you due to different personality types.) I still find skimming your posts useful because it adds some insights that I hadn’t considered and serves and a reminder of others.
I certainly wouldn’t discourage you from posting more even if I found them useless. They aren’t interfering with anyone else, the act of posting things like this is of huge benefit to the author if not anyone else and I know reading this 10 years ago would have changed my life significantly.
I think they were posted too quickly, and other articles are competing for people’s limited time. The Recent Posts bar only goes back 4 days right now.
I certainly want to hear everything you have to say on the subject, which is generally a fascinating one. But there’s not much to discuss in this particular post—it’s a checklist.
I haven’t read it yet; the past few days have had more top-level posts than usual, so I’ve had to put it in my ‘read later’ queue. Others may have done the same.
So apparently I should not shut up instead of continuing with the sequence. That leaves the score of this post in need of explanation (people haven’t read this one yet? this one in particular is inferior to the others? people have a limited number of upvotes they’re willing to give to a single sequence and have already used them up?), and if I shouldn’t be going by karma in gauging how fast to post, I don’t know how I should dole them out. Anybody want to propose a schedule?
The karma system isn’t perfect. Maybe this post did worse because it was made on a weekend? Having said that, I think Robin’s suggestion of one or two a week is good.
No, I find it very interesting. It’s very enlightening to hear somebody else’s view on introspection. I tend to introspect a lot (sometimes maybe too much). I always had a bit of a double relationship with it as you are never sure about your conclusions about yourself and I dislike uncertainty rather strongly.
However, I can’t see another way how know to yourself better. You can use evolutionary psychology & psychological studies but they only provide very broad strokes. You could go to a psychiatrist but there are a lot of different schools to chose from so you are still not sure (and also expensive off course).
I’m curious, are you also planning to write something about doing something with the conclusions reached through introspection ? I never had much problems analyzing myself but don’t have a lot of motivation to act upon it.
So, I’m taking the low karma score of this post as a signal that people are losing interest in the luminosity sequence and I should shut up instead of posting the remainder. Would anyone care to confirm or deny?
Please keep posting anything you’ve already prepared. I’m just skimming the more recent posts in the series but mostly because I have already spent years on luminosity and have discovered what works for me. (Which is somewhat different from what works for you due to different personality types.) I still find skimming your posts useful because it adds some insights that I hadn’t considered and serves and a reminder of others.
I certainly wouldn’t discourage you from posting more even if I found them useless. They aren’t interfering with anyone else, the act of posting things like this is of huge benefit to the author if not anyone else and I know reading this 10 years ago would have changed my life significantly.
I hope you’ll post about your angle on luminosity.
I would be totally thrilled to start a pattern of posting with the tag “luminosity”. I’d feel like I’d parented a movement.
This is a good meme, I hope it generates more posts.
I want to see the rest.
I think they were posted too quickly, and other articles are competing for people’s limited time. The Recent Posts bar only goes back 4 days right now.
I certainly want to hear everything you have to say on the subject, which is generally a fascinating one. But there’s not much to discuss in this particular post—it’s a checklist.
I haven’t read it yet; the past few days have had more top-level posts than usual, so I’ve had to put it in my ‘read later’ queue. Others may have done the same.
So apparently I should not shut up instead of continuing with the sequence. That leaves the score of this post in need of explanation (people haven’t read this one yet? this one in particular is inferior to the others? people have a limited number of upvotes they’re willing to give to a single sequence and have already used them up?), and if I shouldn’t be going by karma in gauging how fast to post, I don’t know how I should dole them out. Anybody want to propose a schedule?
One or two a week seems like a temperate pace.
The karma system isn’t perfect. Maybe this post did worse because it was made on a weekend? Having said that, I think Robin’s suggestion of one or two a week is good.
Alternate hypothesis: people see the sequence as worth a fixed number of post-upvotes (short of 8 per reader).
(As for me, I’m not gaining too much from this sequence, but all the same I’d prefer that you post the full sequence.)
This post does not immediately seem hugely useful to me. I’m waiting for the rest of the sequence to see how it fits in.
No, I find it very interesting. It’s very enlightening to hear somebody else’s view on introspection. I tend to introspect a lot (sometimes maybe too much). I always had a bit of a double relationship with it as you are never sure about your conclusions about yourself and I dislike uncertainty rather strongly.
However, I can’t see another way how know to yourself better. You can use evolutionary psychology & psychological studies but they only provide very broad strokes. You could go to a psychiatrist but there are a lot of different schools to chose from so you are still not sure (and also expensive off course).
I’m curious, are you also planning to write something about doing something with the conclusions reached through introspection ? I never had much problems analyzing myself but don’t have a lot of motivation to act upon it.
I wrote a little bit on what to do with your conclusions in “Lampshading”.
I am very interested. My brain and I are ships passing in the night as it stands.
I’ve been too busy lately to give them the attention (I predict) they deserve. I’ll probably upvote them when I read them.