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The most useful thinking skill I've taught myself, which I think should be more widely practiced, is writing what I call "fact posts." I write a bun…
x Fact Posts: How and Why — LessWrong Bonus: Best Essays of LessWrong Fact posts Scholarship & Learning Practical World Modeling Frontpage 273 Fact Posts: How and Why by sarahconstantin 2nd Dec 2016 4 min read 34 273 The most useful thinking skill I've taught myself, which I think should be more widely practiced, is writing what I call "fact posts." I write a bunch of these on my blog . (I write fact posts about pregnancy and childbirth here. ) To write a fact post, you start with an empirical question, or a general topic. Something like "How common are hate crimes?" or "Are epidurals really d
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