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RowanE comments on Group Rationality Diary, November 16-30 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RowanE 25 November 2014 11:04:02PM 2 points [-]

I've had a longstanding desire to start a video blog. One major cause of my procrastination around doing so has been a tendency to scrap work that wasn't good enough even when I did get around to making an attempt to create a first video, as well as a spiral around "the first video" where I spent more time thinking about it the longer I didn't make one, and the more I thought about it the more it had to match an ideal picture of what a good first vlog/intro vlog for me should look like.

Noticing that, I intentionally made and uploaded a very flawed video consisting of just two sentences describing what I'm doing.

Comment author: hamnox 27 November 2014 02:21:53PM 2 points [-]

I like it.

The journey-of-a-thousand-miles-begins-with-the-first-step and all that, I know how perfect an excuse perfectionism is. Kudos for noticing the problem, making a solution, implementing the solution, and even more so for sharing your work with us! Your boundary-breaking attempt deserved acknowledgement and reward, so I clicked the link.

I didn't expect to like your scrappy 2-sentence video, but I'm genuinely amused by how matter-of-fact it is and the witty "unshaven face" comment at the end. I believe I'll add your companion blog to my follow list.