Don’t reply to Elliot’s articles with typos anymore. Report typos and minor errors here.
Minor means that you don’t think it’s important to discussion of the article. Most people wouldn’t be interested to read it. You don’t think you disagree with Elliot. You don’t think the error has wider consequences implying anything else needs fixing. You don’t think a post mortem should be done.
In general, it’s bad when people dismiss criticism as minor errors. That’s a common way that people refuse to debate. That involves disagreement about the importance of the error. But if the critic or error-reporter himself considers it minor (and the author agrees), then it’s reasonable to treat it as minor.
Did a quick search to see if anyone else mentioned it yet, didn’t find anything. Hope it helps. Quick message, haven’t read everything and replied to everything I should yet
Context:
Found the typo above because a co-founder/colleague told me he drank 3 Zoas (my shallow understanding is it’s some kind of caffeine energy drink but I haven’t looked into it beyond a cursory search and looking at their website for ~30s when he first mentioned it a few weeks ago) and he doesn’t like how he feels and probably drank too much. So I linked him this blog post about caffeine being bad and told him he should consider quitting. He said he tried in the past but failed, but he will try again to cut them down 1 by 1. I think it’s a habit so maybe the habits post will also help him. Curiosity – Changing Habits
Practice a more and gradually speed up (while consciously making sure you’re doing it the new way, not the old way) and make it more subconscious and automatic
In software, if something is used a lot, it’s strongly preferred to make it fully automatic. Something that’s used less often, or very difficult to automate, may require manual actions be a user
The best way to use your conscious computing power is for learning new things and teaching them to your subconscious.
Possible grammar error with “for learning” and “teaching”. I ran the sentence through three grammar checkers and two of them suggested changes. I think “for learning” and “teaching” should be replaced with “to learn” and “teach”.
People misread more when they’re upset. The idea is that if they were skilled enough, their skill would still work reasonably well when upset, even though they’re worse at it when upset. It’s like how people are worse drivers when upset but they still usually don’t get into an accident. Their driving skill is good enough that, even when they’re driving worse, they still usually do reasonably OK (especially for more experienced drivers who can drive in a more habitual, automatic way – relying less on conscious attention means that being upset is less of a problem because being upset particularly distracts you’re conscious attention).
last sentence should end with “your conscious attention”
After you make progress on you analysis, substituting in reverse, to add words back into the text you’re analyzing, can help you apply your conclusions to the original subject matter.
Not positive about this one but it looks intuitively off.
This understanding encourages us to brainstorming ideas more.
Possibly should be: “…encourages us to be brainstorming ideas more.” or “…encourages us to brainstorm ideas more.” or “…encourages us toward brainstorming ideas more.”
And you can have people think for you , including scientists you never interact with but who indirectly inform your doctor about what disease you have and how to cure it, and also tutors who directly thinking about your personal problems.
