(This is my current vision for this blog, which I will keep updated as things change.)
So far I’ve been using this blog as a general outlet for my writing (there hasn’t been very much). But I want to change that. I want more structure and more output.
I want this blog to be useful and respectable. I want it to promote rationality and critical thinking and truth-seeking. I want it to be a creative writing outlet that will contain content I can be proud of for many years. I want it to be:
Valuable
I want this blog to be useful.
I want it to be a valuable, up-to-date resource for those interested in understanding how our brains work, how to think, and how to communicate ideas. Essentially, I want to answer, “What is the best (most correct) worldview?” (This is the goal I’ve had for a very long time now, but I’m extremely bad at doing more than merely thinking about an idea. I hope this blog will help me change that.)
Structured
Blogs have an inherent flaw in that it is easy for older content to get lost along the way. Posts can be too ‘independent’ of each other, and people only tend to read the latest thing on the front page.
I want to avoid this by putting in the work required to keep things updated, to link posts together, and to have organized top-level posts that provide a needed structure and organization.
Imperfect
This needs explaining! I mean that I will never wait for the ‘perfect, absolutely correct’ answer; I’ll never wait for ‘absolute certainty’ before posting things here. Perfectionism is the enemy of done and my greatest hindrance for accomplishing anything.
Knowledge is about degrees of certainty; absolute certainty is impossible! The goal of this blog is to get good knowledge out in the open and update it when needed!
Regularly Updated
In line with the above, I want the content on this blog to be constantly updated with new evidence. I care more about know what is actually true than about feeling good about what I know. Feeling right does not equal being right.
Honest
I will strive to admit my fallibility and be honest about my uncertainty. Professing ignorance doesn’t accomplish anything, but being constantly aware of the complexity and difficulty in answering some questions will help see through the complexity, avoid bad answers, and help arrive at correct answers.
Referential
I want to stand on the shoulders of giants. A large portion of my work will not be original. Many great minds have had many great thoughts. Reinventing the wheel is a waste of time.
Broad and Deep
I want to cover many topics (biases, heuristics, neuroscience, communication skills, critical thinking, scientific method, epistemology, etc.) but I also want to delve deeply into each one, not merely cursory glances.
Truth-seeking
This is the most important. Above all, I want this post to help seek out the truth about the world. I want to carve reality at its joints. I want to understand how reality works, how I work, how you work, and what the best methods are for arriving at this truth.
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I hope I can do all of these things, and I welcome all feedback, constructive criticism, and ideas.
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