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Well, yes, there is lukeprog fatigue, but not in the sense that you probably mean it. One, or even a couple, of such posts from the same person are fine. It's good to have information about how rationality has impacted somebody, and it's motivatonal as well. But when the same person keeps posting about the same things, over and over again, it ceases to have motivational value. And while it's good to summarize old material, clarify it or make it sexier (your Existential Risk post was great, in those respects), simply linking to old stuff or restating it provides little of value.
You're right in that a lot of this material would be more appreciated if it was coming from somebody else, but it's not because we've started to take it for granted that you're producing quality material. It's because coming from somebody else, it would provide an independent datapoint about this stuff being useful for someone. You restating the ways in which this has been useful to you only tells us that you haven't changed your mind about this being useful to you.
(And I second the "don't take this personally" bit - I still upvote most of your posts, and I think you're one of the best posters on the site. It's just this particular series of posts that doesn't thrill me.)
Not really. The previous post focused on the example of William Lane Craig, who is just an awful example for rationalists to emulate. This section is more "scholarship allowed me to do X, Y, and Z to make my own life better," which is much more helpful.