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Introductions

Introduce yourself here.

Here are some options for info you could share:

  • Why are you here? What are you looking for?
  • Learning goals at FI.
  • History with FI.
  • Background knowledge (what you already know, what you're good at).
  • Projects already completed.
  • Projects in progress.
  • Resources available for FI projects (e.g. time, money, skills, helpful friends, followers).
  • Life situation (e.g. age, job, goal job, country, university degree in progress or completed).
  • What motivates you when you post in online discussions?

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Ritesh Chibba
Hey I'm ratnfuture from discord.
Elliot, Fallible Ideas
Welcome, Ritesh. What are your goals here? I'm gonna edit the OP and suggest some info ppl could give.
Farouk

I'm here to learn philosophy, more broadly to improve my thinking skills. 
Learning goals:
  •  Learn how to learn more effectively. 
  •  How to be more rational.
  •  Epistemology, including memes and the mind.
History: I discovered Eliot's blog through BOI in 2017. 
In 2018 I began reading it and in 2019 I asked some questions on the blog under the alias "Jorge". In 2020 I wrote an easy and shared it, Eliot and Justin criticized it. Soon after I shared a learning plan. 

I'm not particularly good at anything yet. The philosophy subject I know most about is CR. 

The only project I have completed was a screenplay 2 years ago. I don't have anything else yet.

My project in progress is learning to program and getting a job as a web-dev. I'm also practicing my speed reading and reading comprehension.

Resources available: My brother also likes philosophy, has a good mindset, and intends on learning as well and participating as well.

Life situation: I'm 24 and still living with my parents. I  made some really bad decisions in my early 20s, and now I'm correcting my course. I dropped out of college twice.
 My goal job in the short and midterm is as a web developer. I live in Mexico.

Most of the time when I post on fi is because I have a question. 

Edit: I don't intend on participating much right now. I'm waiting until I have a more stable living situation so that I can invest more time and money in my learning project.

Edit: My goal job is a freelance or remote Web dev. 
 
Ritesh Chibba
Why are you here? What are you looking for?
I am here to learn to be better in life. 

Learning goals at FI.
English – to be able to read, write and listen effectively.
Philosophy – to be able to make and choose better decisions.

History with FI.
I have been mostly a lurker for at least 2 years. I have communicated with people on FI very little during that time, like having small discussions and playing a video game for fun.

Background knowledge (what you already know, what you’re good at).
I know very little about being good at FI.

Projects already completed.
None.

Projects in progress.
Grammar lessons by curi.

Resources available for FI projects (e.g. time, money, skills, helpful friends, followers).
I have time to learn FI and I believe FI people to be friends who are helpful.

Life situation (e.g. age, job, goal job, country, university degree in progress or completed).
Age - 34
Job – Warehouse worker
Goal Job – to get out of labor and get into managerial position.
Country – Canada
University degree- None completed and none in progress.

What motivates you when you post in online discussions?
I usually start or get into discussions when I notice something, I believe to be wrong or mistaken. Also I like to get an end to a discussion by being corrected or correcting someone else.
Andy Dufresne
  • Why are you here? What are you looking for?
    I'm mainly here because discussions are a hobby I enjoy. As side benefits I learn some philosophy concepts and I pick up some useful life tips. Long term I think it's possible I'll want to get serious about learning philosophy.
  • Learning goals at FI.
    Currently, have fun and pick up some useful bits of knowledge in an unstructured way. In the future I might get more serious and structured to try to learn FI well enough to use it to make major life changes.
  • History with FI.
    I have been an active poster to various degrees on FI and its predecessor lists for many years.
  • Background knowledge (what you already know, what you're good at).
    It's hard to answer this without more context. If I assume "Philosophy Discussion on FI" is the context then I have enough background in Objectivism, Critical Rationalism, and YESNO / Critical Fallibilism to understand most of what is being discussed about them on FI.
  • Projects already completed.
    Also hard to answer without more context. If I assume "Philosophy Discussion on FI" is the context then some completed projects are:
    - Making it fun enough to continue rather than quit.
    - Learning enough to follow and sometimes participate in discussions without routinely getting lost.
    - Getting over initial hostility at not being as good at discussion as I thought I was.
    - Raising my discussion standards enough to not be creating errors faster than they can be resolved.
    - Making tree diagrams to communicate complex ideas.
  • Projects in progress.
    - Making time and thought-space in my life for more serious non-job projects.
  • Resources available for FI projects (e.g. time, money, skills, helpful friends, followers).
    - Decent reading and discussion skills
    - Decent computer skills
    - Currently more money than time
    - Family knows about & OK with FI at least in its current role
  • Life situation (e.g. age, job, goal job, country, university degree in progress or completed).
    - Age 50
    - Job is currently in IT Architecture as an employee of a large tech company. I'm in the process of leaving that role. I also have side businesses in real estate (rentals, notes, and land).
    - Goal job is an independent contractor / business owner doing something technical I'm interested in for its own sake.
    - Country: USA and New Zealand
    - Have BS and an MS degrees in business technology but regard my university degrees as low value and in some cases (particularly philosophy) negative value.
  • What motivates you when you post in online discussions?
    Saying something I think is interesting.
internet
> Here are some options for info you could share: 

i have a hard time answering some of the questions. especially the ones that are about your goals, reasons for being on FI, and motivation. those ones seem like the most important as well.
Elliot, Fallible Ideas all r optional
Dface
Hello I changed my name to Dface. I think it's not a good idea to show my real name.
  • Why are you here? What are you looking for?
     I want to learn to like projects. I think projects aren't just a school thing; projects are also guides with steps that accomplish stuff in life. I'm looking to practice doing projects.
  • Learning goals at FI.
     I want to learn FI philosophy, but there are smaller things that I need to achieve like learning english grammar, knowing goal based learning, and responding to criticism like a rational person.
  • History with FI.
     I started posting last year, but stopped after a few months. I think I have rationality problems like I see a situation worse than what it really is.
  • Background knowledge (what you already know, what you're good at).
     Im good at games like dark souls. I like timing boss attacks and doing perfect boss runs. Besides that I don't have many useful life skills.
  • Projects already completed.
     I like to think of posting on FIGG to be a project, cuz I mindmap what I want to do real quick in steps and follow each step to make a post online.
  • Projects in progress.
     I was learning to code, but I don't have any concrete goals like what do i want to be in the end. The thing that interests me the most is using logic to create games and fixing problems in the logic like fixing bugs.
  • Resources available for FI projects (e.g. time, money, skills, helpful friends, followers).
I work a minimum wage job so I now have dispensable money I can use to invest stuff in.
  • Life situation (e.g. age, job, goal job, country, university degree in progress or completed).
     I quit school and am now working at mcdonalds. I want a better job, though, that could be more fun and rewarding.
  • What motivates you when you post in online discussions?
     I want to learn. I know I can't learn all by myself and I think feedback and discussion helps with learning.
Elliot, Fallible Ideas
Welcome, Dface Dface , Andy Dufresne Andy , internet internet , Farouk Farouk , Ritesh Chibba Ritesh .

I have been posting some activity/project things, e.g. about time tracking or listing steps in a project. I hope you'll get involved by trying some of those or else working on something else using To-dos. If it isn't clear enough what to do for any of the activities, but you'd like to participate, please ask a question.

Don't hesitate to work on activities that were posted in the past. Look through the Message Board to find them.

You can also post questions about anything, e.g. about problems you have or about something you're learning.

You can also look at what others are doing and get some inspiration or share some feedback.
Farouk noted
heroLFG (Gavin Palmer)
What motivates you when you post in online discussions?

The short version:

1) networking
2) learning
3) teaching

The longer version

1) Networking
I have some ambitious goals where overreaching is a risk.  I think the risk of overreaching can be negated by expanding the timespan and depending on the help of other people who have knowledge I do not have.  I know I can’t do ambitious goals alone.  And I think knowledge about organization is vital.

Nested within my ambitious goals are less ambitious goals like learning about organizing people (including myself) who each have limited attention, goals, skills, and trustability.  These less ambitious and more practical goals can help me in all of my roles (where I have more specific goals) in a mutually beneficial way while I develop my stack of skills.

I hope that people who agree with my goals will consider working with me more closely.  My ambitious goal is something like “help create a future where all people have access to an abundance of clean water without forcing anyone to do things they don’t want to do”.

2) Learning
I think people’s attention is extremely valuable.  I hope that people will share their opinions about big mistakes I am making.  I focus more on this goal when engaging with the FI community.

3) Teaching
Teaching is not my primary goal.  It is a potential side effect.  I hope I am not getting in the way of other people’s learning goals.

Background knowledge (what you already know, what you're good at).

I am very good at identifying the reason why a problem exists in complex software systems.

I am very good at learning about complex software systems in order to identify risks.

I am very good at debiasing myself.  I think my ability to learn about complex software systems is a skill which scales to other areas and my ability to debias is essential.

History with FI.

GISTE saw some things I was sharing and thought I might be ET.  I think the things I was sharing were very similar to ideas like Paths Forward which ET had shared previously.  I was trying to call out people (and the mindset) who do not allow other people like myself to help correct mistakes they are making.

I went to the FI discord and engaged with ET in an irrational way which was exposed when I didn’t click a link to ET’s Impasse Policy.

ET recommended that I read The Goal by Eli Goldratt.  I enjoyed the book and the highlight for me was the idea that organizations aren’t being explicit with their goals which leads to counterproductive activities.  The relevant people must agree with the specific goal and try to be productive.  That is an important first step that many people and organizations are ignoring.  I think this is the highlight for me because I haven’t done a good job of setting explicit goals which are agreed upon by the relevant people.
Jesse Nichols
  • Why are you here? What are you looking for?
Looking at how basecamp works and trying to learn how to ship! Also, philosophy is cool.
S. Emiya
  • Why are you here? What are you looking for?
I am here to improve my understanding of the world.
  • Learning goals at FI.
I want to learn how to effectively detect errors in my own ideas.
  • History with FI.
Post infrequently in the Discord.  Read from BoI and lately FoR frequently.
  • Background knowledge (what you already know, what you're good at).
I work in cybersecurity consulting.  In school I studied Mechatronics engineering.
  • Projects already completed.
  • Projects in progress.
Learning from BoI and FoR.
  • Life situation (e.g. age, job, goal job, country, university degree in progress or completed).
Late 20's married with kids.  Lucky to be working in my goal job already.
  • What motivates you when you post in online discussions?
Sharing knowledge with others.  And learning new things from others.
Elliot, Fallible Ideas
S. Emiya S.  Cool. Will you work on practicing and learning project organization stuff here? That's one of the things you'd need to learn effectively from BoI or FoR. You need to know how to mange, organize and do a project with a learning goal. See my posts in the Message Board for more info. Ask if you have any questions or get lost.