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I always have to think about that one when I had just been spending 20 minutes trying to formulate an elaborate response to someone's comment, just to proceed t
by ShellfishMeme 6y ago
I always have to think about that one when I had just been spending 20 minutes trying to formulate an elaborate response to someone's comment, just to proceed to sigh and close the thing without posting it.
Probably most of the time it was for the better too.
- specialist 6y agoI'm self culling a lot more too. I'd argue those unposted drafts are still valuable, if only to help oneself flesh out ideas.
- ShellfishMeme 6y agoI completely agree. Often I don't proceed because the point I wanted to make is just not properly defendable at that point. But the ideas written down in the process don't disappear and at the same time I got a better appreciation of the other side's point of view. I'd rather hold on to those ideas and evolve them further than to get too attached and be forced into a situation where I eventually defend my opinions because I moved myself into a position where I feel like this is a deep personal belief rather than a well defined objective-ish argument I tried to make.