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 Alisa's learning plan
 =====================
 
-Last updated 2020-11-12. (See also my [Paths Forward doc](pf.md).)
+Last updated 2020-12-01. (See also my [Paths Forward doc](pf.md).)
 
-Posting daily since 2019-10-12. (~[396](https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=number+of+days+between+2019-10-12+and+2020-11-11) days without a gap!)
+Posting daily since 2019-10-12. (~[416](https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=number+of+days+between+2019-10-12+and+2020-12-01) days without a gap!)
 
 Note: By "FI post" I mean a message sent to a private or [public](http://fallibleideas.com/discussion) Fallible Ideas discussion list or a comment posted to [curi.us](http://curi.us).
 
 # Goals
 
-## Figure out my high-level goals
+## Figure out my life goal(s)
 
-I want to figure out my high-level/big picture goals in life. I wrote a few FI comments about this:
+My current life goal is to figure out a better life goal.
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+I wrote a few FI comments about life goals (which I sometimes called "high-level goals"):
 
 - [high-level goals and bottlenecks, examples of high-level goals](http://curi.us/2204-alisa-discussion#18268)
 - [depravity](http://curi.us/2204-alisa-discussion#18276) and ["the man without a purpose"](http://curi.us/2204-alisa-discussion#18277)

          
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 - [impasses, improvement goals vs maintenance goals](http://curi.us/2028-writing-tips#18454)
 - [thinking about trying to do something great with my life](http://curi.us/2204-alisa-discussion#18381)
 
-This is an important, interesting problem. I added a column to my spreadsheet for "goals minutes". Until I figure out what my high-level goals are, I intend spend at least 5 minutes of FI posting time per day thinking about or freewriting about this topic.
+This is an important, interesting problem. I added a column to my spreadsheet for "goals minutes". Until I figure out my life goal(s), I intend to spend at least 5 minutes of FI posting time per day thinking about or freewriting about this topic.
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+From 2020-11-11 through 2020-11-30 (inclusive), the minimum amount of minutes per day I spent thinking about or freewriting about my goals was 0 (I forgot on one day), and the average was 8.35.
 
 ## Practice conversational writing
 

          
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 I updated my TTS policy (below) to encourage me to write conversationally. Basically, I don't have to TTS any sentence that I write conversationally, from beginning to end. If I go back to a sentence I already finished and make some edits, then I would still need to TTS the result. I think this makes sense, because my natural process of generating text doesn't create the annoying kinds of errors that I needed TTS to fix.
 
-Another benefit of getting better at writing conversationally is that it may help me get better at thinking out loud. One way it could help me do this is by shortening the amount of time it takes me to write posts. I wrote about this in [a curi.us comment](http://curi.us/2204-alisa-discussion#18275).
+Getting better at writing conversationally may also help me get better at thinking out loud. One way it could help me do this is by shortening the amount of time it takes me to write posts. I wrote about this in [a curi.us comment](http://curi.us/2204-alisa-discussion#18275).
 
 ## Spend enough time on FI
 
-From 2020-07-07 through 2020-10-02, I averaged slightly over 30 (estimated) minutes per day writing FI posts (computed with the AVERAGE function in the Google Sheet where I track my time). Since 2020-09-11, I've been using a clock to track my time most days. My average amount of time per day spent writing FI posts as measured by the clock is 22 minutes. I intend to spend at least 30 minutes per day writing FI posts as measured by the clock.
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-Starting on 2020-10-03, I set myself the goal of spending at least 30 minutes per day posting to FI, as measured by a clock. I succeeded at that, and, even better, since I started doing that, I've actually averaged over an hour per day. It seems like trying for 30 minutes is enough to get me into the flow where I keep going for over an hour. This happens often enough, and the effect is great enough, to average out to over an hour per day. I plan to keep this up. I'm not currently planning to increase the amount of time I spend posting to FI.
+Since 2020-10-03, when I set myself the goal of spending at least 30 minutes per day posting to FI (as measured by a clock), I've averaged 63 minutes per day. Some of this time has been spent brainstorming or freewriting. That wasn't originally part of how I was planning to spend my measured time, but I'm changing my goal to include that.
 
 Note: The total amount of time I spend on FI is more than what's counted above, because I keep up with FI list, the curi.us comments, and the FI newsletter, and I don't normally count that time.
 
-## Practice free-writing
+## Practice freewriting
 
-My goal is to free-write every day for at least 5 minutes. I've had this goal since 2020-10-05, and as of 2020-11-11, I've made approximately zero progress towards it. To help me remember to do it, I added a column for "freewriting minutes" to my the spreadsheet where I track my daily FI posting time. When I update my learning plan in the future, I will include the minimum amount of time I spent freewriting for any day during the period as well as the average amount of time spent freewriting over the period.
+My goal is to freewrite every day for at least 5 minutes. I've had this goal since 2020-10-05, and as of 2020-11-11, I've made approximately zero progress towards it. To help me remember to do it, I added a column for "freewriting minutes" to my the spreadsheet where I track my daily FI posting time. When I update my learning plan in the future, I will include the minimum amount of time I spent freewriting for any day during the period as well as the average amount of time spent freewriting over the period.
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+From 2020-11-11 through 2020-11-30 (inclusive), the minimum amount of minutes per day I spent freewriting was 0 (I forgot on one day), and the average was 5.2.
 
 ## Post to FI every day
 

          
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 - [Discussion w/curi about the space of ideas being initially sparse](http://curi.us/comments/show/16384): On 2020-04-18, curi replied to me. 
 - [YESNO check your understanding question: "What's wrong with arguments having an amount of strength?"](https://groups.google.com/g/fallible-ideas/c/iSJI00UfYno/m/M8kBEHBqAQAJ): On 2020-06-20, curi replied to me with some criticisms of my answer to this question.
 - [curi's idea for solving the elevator puzzle](http://curi.us/comments/show/18504)
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+As of my [2020-11-12 learning plan update](https://hg.sr.ht/~petrogradphilosopher/fi/browse/lp.md?rev=32297f10315ac2c84fcacbf519573dece85cb712), there were 7 items here. Now, there are only 3.