How about writing a draft with imperfect arguments, and then getting a few people from your target audience to read it while you’re watching them (for example, in a video call with share screen), and you’ll hear their questions/thoughts/pushbacks?
I think about this like “user testing”: The pushbacks that people have are often different from what I’d guess myself.
Meta: I’m expecting you to have all sorts of pushbacks to this suggestion, I could explain my thoughts and experiences here over 10 pages, probably. But I’m not going to! I’m going to hope you tell me what you care about and I’ll improve only that part
I might have a suggestion here:
How about writing a draft with imperfect arguments, and then getting a few people from your target audience to read it while you’re watching them (for example, in a video call with share screen), and you’ll hear their questions/thoughts/pushbacks?
I think about this like “user testing”: The pushbacks that people have are often different from what I’d guess myself.
Meta: I’m expecting you to have all sorts of pushbacks to this suggestion, I could explain my thoughts and experiences here over 10 pages, probably. But I’m not going to! I’m going to hope you tell me what you care about and I’ll improve only that part
(Big fan btw!)
I think this is often a good approach!
This is the kindest way anyone ever told me that I didn’t help ;) <3 <3
If anyone’s interested, I just posted about this idea yesterday: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8BGexmqqAx5Z2KFjW/how-to-make-your-article-more-persuasive-spoiler-do-user