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[Elliot]

@LMD

I don’t want to post really disorganised stuff though.

Why?

Note you can label/explain it and collapse it.

@LMD

@Elliot

We can do more curated assignments. It’s a way of breaking projects down into smaller parts. You can’t work on all skills at once. Curation reduces the size and/or number of parts for you to worry about.

Oh okay. Cool. That sounds good. I’m kind of surprised, actually. I think I assumed or guessed some intentions or opinions of yours: that you want me to be taking more initiative myself and for you to be curating what I’m doing less in general. I think I’ve read that into some of your replies before.

I sometimes try to give people options and choices because I have limited information about what’s going on in their mind. For example, I don’t know why you didn’t follow up on Milton Friedman and Maximizing Profits - #90 by Elliot So I’m not in a good position to know if assigning that would be a good idea or not without asking a question(s) about it first. Why didn’t you post more there? Is there a problem? Do you have any objection, hesitation, doubts, intuitive concerns, etc., about doing that more as an assignment? Is it maybe too hard/big? Are you more interested in something else?

@LMD

I think I would be happy to try it if you assigned it yeah.

Elliot Shares Links (2021)

I’m going to share links in this topic. I will generally explain little or nothing (if I wanted to write much explanation, I’d give a link its own topic). There are a few reasons: People are at this forum partly because they’re interested in what I think and consider worth sharing. I’ve already written a ton, so people often already know what my opinion is. Questions are fine. I’m just not going to preemptively explain everything. Some people here are biased to agree with me, but I want people…

Assignment: Go write comments on 10 links. One sentence comments are fine. This should take under an hour and you should comment on most links you look at, not skip a bunch from being unsure what to say. I think the main reason to skip a link after looking at it would be that you see it’s long. Skimming through for links to short stuff is fine.

@Eternity You might like this assignment too.

@LMD

That quantity of posts outside of this thread hasn’t happened before. I don’t think there isn’t still an issue of commenting on new forum threads. But I think some progress might’ve been made. I had a lot of fun doing that. I feel a bit more open to just writing and potentially making mistakes.

@LMD

Like I want to post good things, and not be making mistakes and being disruptive.

That’s kinda funny to me because I think the main thing disrupting discussions at this forum is people being hesitant to talk much. There just aren’t enough discussions. You may not have thought about what the constraint(s) here is and taken that into account.

@LMD

I often just don’t know what to start a discussion with, or join a discussion with. I feel a bit blank sometimes. Maybe that’s for lack of interest. Occasionally things occur to me to say, and I’ll try writing something and sometimes I post. Other times I have second thoughts about posting responses. I kind of think of my tutoring assignments as being my priority here, and often they’re taking up my philosophy capacity for the day.

Posting in any thread is fine. You don’t have to prioritize tutoring assignments. If I think there’s a problem with not doing enough tutoring activities, I’ll say something.

If you’re blank but wanted to say something, you can say that: you want to talk about this but don’t know what to say. Then you may receive questions or suggestions. In general, it’s a good idea to spend a literal five minutes on it, measured with a clock, before deciding you’re blank, including some written brainstorming. If you’ve already done that, you can say so so that people don’t suggest it.

PS How did Duolingo go? Any thoughts on Spanish or practice methods? Did you stop yet? Are you very interested in learning more Spanish or not really? It’s fine either way; I don’t know whether to make any further recommendations about it.