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I have never seen a documentation of a quest to avoid Akrasia on LW. I've seen summary's of tips and tricks. I've read Alicorn's challenge. I've seen reports of specific tools. I was thinking more along the lines of a cognitive tale of me trying to control my mental state that others can use as a rope when they fall into the pit of despair. If it seems like I am falling into fandom because my lack of experience I can't control your opinion. However, I think you are suffering from the same cognitive pattern that some others are
and therefore feeling undue condescension towards my work. I would appreciate specific examples as I said above so that I may better understand your position.
Whatever you want to call this post, I assure you that all the worthwhile bits have already been on LW. Maybe if your tale contained more than "I want to do nice-sounding stuff" it would be almost as interesting to read as those "tips and tricks," or as they are sometimes called, actually going out and doing stuff.
And I mean that. You don't absolutely have to give new information in the text to write a good post. Personal stories can be nice, both as entertainment and because of the information they contain in the subtext. But stories have to be stories. They have to have a beginning and a middle, and sometimes an end. They should probably have a character or two, and these characters should probably actually go out and do stuff.