I spend a good amount of time reading, sometimes books but also often Substack essays and LessWrong posts as well. I think this is overall good but can easily turn into a sort of productivity sink, where it feels like I'm doing something good/productive by reading yet another post but I'm not really getting anything out it. I'd like to write more and better organize my thoughts on a variety of topics, so that's why I'm making this market.

In the next month I'll track my time reading and writing, and my goal is to write for at least half as much of the time that I read. At the moment I do fairly little writing (maybe <10% of the time I spend reading).

I will not include taking basic notes while I read something to be "writing," although if I'm more carefully writing up counterarguments or analysis then I would count it as writing.

If I'm actively writing a post about some topic, I will include research into that as part of my writing time as long as I feel it is directly part of the writing process.

I won't include any sort of end-of-day journaling in my writing time.

If I post something as a result of my writing, I'll probably link it in the comments! But I am not required to post any of my writing for this market to resolve YES.

I will not trade on this market.