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Alisa's paths forward policy
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-Last updated 2019-11-03.
+Last updated 2019-12-01.
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## Post to FI every day
-My goal is to post at least once per day, except when I'm taking a break. I may take up to two breaks per year, each of which could last for up to two weeks.
+My goal is to post at least once per day, except when I'm taking a break. I may take up to two breaks per year, each of which could last for up to two weeks. Starting 2019-12-01, I will log (in my records) the URL of at least one of the FI posts I make each day.
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+As of 2019-12-01, my streak of posting once per day is 51 days long.
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+(My streak would be 153 days long, except that I missed 2019-10-11. I thought I sent a post that day, but I must not have hit "Send". I sent it the next day, along with my regular post for that day. To help prevent this mistake from recurring, I've updated my posting policy to require me to record the URL for at least one of the posts that I send each day.)
+## Share screencasts of me composing FI posts
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+I've started using a program called asciinema to make screencasts of my terminal when I compose FI posts. I expect these screencasts will help me be able to look back later to see how I made particular mistakes in my posts.
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+My FI screencasts are available at [asciinema.org/~petrogradphilos](https://asciinema.org/~petrogradphilos).
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+Unfortunately, the asciinema.org screencast player doesn't (yet?) let you adjust the playback speed dynamically, like you can with YouTube, but you can change it by appending "?speed=X" to the URL ([example](https://asciinema.org/a/282250?speed=4)) and re-loading.
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## Keep my FI posting error rate low
[In order to learn, one's error rate needs to be sufficiently low](http://fallibleideas.com/gradualism). I plan to keep my FI posting error rate low enough that I can [write a postmortem for every posting mistake I find out about](http://curi.us/2204-alisa-discussion#12940).
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- Jordan Talcot
- Ingracke
-All discussions under this heading are to take place in FI posts. If you would like to request a reply from me on some topic and are having trouble getting my attention through those channels, tweet at me and mention that you are looking for a path forward from me: [@petrogradphilos](http://twitter.com/petrogradphilos).
+All discussions under this heading are to take place in FI posts.
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+If you would like to request a reply from me on some topic and are having trouble getting my attention through FI posts, tweet at me and mention that you are looking for a path forward from me: [@petrogradphilos](http://twitter.com/petrogradphilos).
The need for a paths forward escalation policy was brought to my attention by [Elliot Temple in an FI list post on 2018-04-19](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fallible-ideas/xR4JE-Br6AE/EbBb9RZHAAAJ). That post also includes helpful suggestions on how to deal with possible conflicts that could come up around this: search the post for "if you are uncomfortable with a priority change proposal".
# Writing checklist
-Here is a list of things I am learning to check for when writing FI posts:
+Below is a list of things I am learning to check for when writing FI posts. (To encourage people to point out my writing mistakes, I'm considering offering a bounty for mistakes in my posts of the type I care about.)
## Typos and grammar errors
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It's easier for me to notice mistakes by looking away from the screen and listening to TTS than by looking at the screen and reading it myself. I want quick, reliable feedback on a wide variety of typos. TTS provides that.
+## Clarity of references
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+References are words/phrases like "it", "he", "they", "the argument", etc. To help with clarity, I plan to check whether or not each reference is better than replacing it with a statement of the thing being referenced. This check was suggested by [Elliot Temple in an FI list post on 2018-04-24](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fallible-ideas/vqRGArolXEs/b2eFQAD_AQAJ). Any error in clarity of references counts as an error.
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+## Other mistakes I care about
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+In addition to the above, I'm focused on avoiding the following kinds of mistakes:
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+- false statements
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+- unclear statements
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+- non sequiturs
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+- formatting errors
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## Topic sentences
The [topic sentence](https://owl.english.purdue.edu/engagement/2/1/29/) is the sentence that identifies the main idea in a paragraph.
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The idea of scanning for topic sentences was suggested by [Elliot Temple in an FI list post on 2018-04-24](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fallible-ideas/vqRGArolXEs/b2eFQAD_AQAJ)
-## Clarity of references
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-References are words/phrases like "it", "he", "they", "the argument", etc. To help with clarity, I plan to check whether or not each reference is better than replacing it with a statement of the thing being referenced. This check was suggested by [Elliot Temple in an FI list post on 2018-04-24](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fallible-ideas/vqRGArolXEs/b2eFQAD_AQAJ). Any error in clarity of references counts as an error.
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## Explaining thinking
When commenting on other people's writing, the author should explain their own thinking.
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- Kitty Nash, "[Order of Adjectives](https://www.englishgrammar101.com/module-5/modifiers-adjectives-and-adverbs/lesson-4/order-of-adjectives)"
-## Other mistakes I care about
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-In addition to the above, I'm focused on avoiding the following kinds of mistakes:
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-- false statements
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-- unclear statements
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-- non sequiturs
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-- formatting errors
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# Philosophy topics to learn and write about
Here are the philosophy topics I plan to learn and write about, in order of descending priority: