Goal

My goal with this policy is to place some light, functional constraints on my blog writing. I'm going to pre-arrange some things so that I can't just make stuff up as I go along and fit it to my biases. (Edit: I consider this a small and limited version of a rationality policy.)

Constraints

I can write one of two types of blogs:

• a casual blog; or
• a serious one

A casual blog:

• Must bear a 'casual' tag (appear in the 'Casual' category);
• Must not purport to be any kind of big, important, impactful, refined, or deep contribution to human knowledge;
• Is otherwise free-form and unconstrained.

A serious blog:

• Must bear a 'serious' tag (appear in the 'Serious' category);
• Must include a statement of the goal of the blog at the beginning;
• Must include a conclusion, which makes reference to the goal of the blog;
• Must not include any jokes or irony or satire;
• Must include at least one suggestion of what would constitute valuable feedback for the blog.

I can update the policy by making the changes explicit below this line.

Conclusion

Labelling blogs as one thing or another stops me from hiding in ambiguities about what a blog really is and what purpose it serves. The structure imposed on a serious blog stops me from being lazy and assuming that I have stated things clearly enough or followed sufficiently good practices. So the policy does help me to reduce bias some.

Feedback

I'm not starting with that many constraints. I'm a bit cautious about going gung-ho and adding a bunch, since I don't want to get trapped and lose expressive power. But is there anything else which is reasonable that you can think of to add?