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I have previously read media consumption diet posts on LW and elsewhere that I thought were quite good and helpful. I need to:
Find the three most helpful to me such posts, search time cannot exceed 20 minutes.
Take a few minutes to assess the three chosen posts more carefully, identify where and how they ebb and flow in response to each other. Find the best flow and most correct-for-me ideas out of them.
Write 1st post detailing structured efforts for improving my media consumption diet to help improve my voicing voice capabilities.
Decide time span between 1st post and 2nd follow-up, reflective, post. Set calendar notifications for end of time span to write 2nd post.
At the marked date, write and publish 2nd post.
re: Shortform #50
"These efforts should help me notice and cultivate my "voice", and give voice to myself. Developing my thoughts into refined ideas and producing them is highly aligned with my interests, goals, and more, so I'm excited for this! (note to self: the actual methods for how I do these things and what I actually do, plus what my successes and failures turn out to be are good source material for two posts: 1 post detailing the plan and effort and a 2nd post detailing successes and failures; I think writing those two posts will beneficially effect my structuring of this effort, increase my likelihood of follow-through, and provide myself with useful analytics after the fact to reflect on; others who read the two posts may find some benefit too)"
I enjoyed reading this and skimming through your other shortforms. I’m intrigued by this idea of using the short form as something like a journal (albeit a somewhat public facing one).
Any tips, if I might want to start doing this? How helpful have you found it? Any failure modes?
copied from bottom of post: "My #1 tip is to start writing shortforms, whatever you can do, give it a go :) try different strategies, write about different types of things, be more personal or less personal, fail publicly, and so on so you can see what works well for you and grow in the ways you want to grow!"
Were there any parts you found particularly enjoyable, interesting, or even enlightening in some way?
I'll share my experiences thus far writing these shortforms:
I definitely use these shortforms as a public journal or log, and I find that r... (read more)