"How to Decide What to Do" is the title of a recently-added page
of my “site” at The Well, located
at

https://people.well.com/user/edelsont/philosophy/01-intro.html

All that's there, so far, is the “Introduction”
… which is full of promises of what is to come.

I have unexpectedly developed a case of writer's block: I
haven't written even a line, yet, of the (or any) following
segment.

I do have a possible inkling as to why.  I was operating
under an assumption about what writing this “book” would
entail.  To wit, that it would require me to be completely
“open” about my inner, emotional life: to be prepared to
lay bare any relevant detail about my fears, desires, or any sort
of feelings.

And I didn't feel able (or, perhaps more accurately, willing)
to do that.  I still don't.

However, this doesn't necessarily mean that the project is
doomed.  I have a faint glimmering of an approach that would
allow me to write the thing, without doing the [emotional] Full
Monty to quite that degree.

It would not be exactly the same book, but I think maybe I could
accomplish my central goal.  I guess you — and I!
— will have to wait and see whether this works out.

I apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.




 

At our last meeting, I let you know that there was something new
posted on my “site” at The Well: a short piece called
“Why Do Anything?”  And now there's another new
document there; this one's called “How to Decide What to
Do.”

More precisely, all that's newly available is the first little
piece of “How to Decide What to Do”: its
Introduction.

As you might expect from the titles, telling the
reader how to decide what to do is a bigger
undertaking than just explaining why one ought
to do anything at all.  (It might even amount to a whole
book.)  That's why I decided to post it in pieces, rather
than make you wait until I've completed the whole thing.

Now here's the part where I tell you where to go.  This
link

https://people.well.com/user/edelsont/philosophy/phil-index.html

will take you to my newly expanded “index” of
philosophical writings.  From there, one more click will
procure you the Introduction.

January 2025

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