October 7th, 2020
- Published a new blog post!
- Other topics I wanted to be able to link to in that blog post, that I'm creating stub roam pages for.
- Scrap thoughts
- (Unfortunately, in relation to writing, as I'll discuss a bit later, it's hard to have a realistic showtime where you can't actually do the writing beforehand. Actual tests and exams are constrained like sports games, intended to produce fair competition (by giving everyone the same amount of time) and avoid cheating (by not allowing people to use text that existed at the start of the exam), which doesn't create a natural environment for actually creating your best work.)
- I'm realizing that this approach is actually spiritually similar to one I used to take in school with certain assignments:
- deliberately waiting until the last moment to do assignments, to force myself to get “whatever grade I could get in an hour” rather than starting well in advance and trying to do a good job (in some cases I managed to get >90% in an hour)
- Something about how Self-Referential Motivation is a way to hack the Beeminder-style approach, where you just CHOOSE that you're going to do a thing by a time or whatever.
- it would be cool to do at least a stub roamblog writeup about "what is punishment?" that uses the missing the bus example but also talks about how negative reinforcement can be punishment even when it's not intended to make you feel bad ---- whoaaaaa and how Beeminder is not actually punishment ?!!? hm.
- important to note that this post isn't actually directly discussing:
- maybe something about public speaking and how I used to create my speeches by just speaking over and over about what I wanted to say, and reflecting in between about parts I liked or didn't