本文作者分享了近期写作和博客发布的近况。作者表示，完成第二章的大修后，编辑工作进展顺利，第三章已完成，第四章也接近尾声，尽管部分章节因措辞困难而有所延迟。博客方面，作者坚持每周三发布新内容，并计划下周因参加禅修而暂停更新。同时，作者的博客内容已自动同步到Less Wrong平台，并欢迎该平台的新读者。文章还重点介绍了作者对Enneagram（九型人格）的深入学习和理解，认为其能帮助人们摆脱痛苦的循环，并预告了自己将发布相关文章。最后，作者谈及了对X（原Twitter）算法变化的看法，并分享了自己获得社区笔记功能的经历。

📝 **写作与发布进展**：作者在完成第二章的大幅改写后，编辑工作效率显著提升，第三章修订已毕，第四章也已取得实质性进展。作者提到，部分章节因措辞困难而遇到瓶颈，这可能是早期写作时留下的挑战。在博客发布方面，作者保持每周三更新的频率，尽管内容可能不如以往精炼，但仍有大量话题待写，且列表增长速度快于写作速度。

🧘 **禅修安排与暂停更新**：作者将于下周暂停博客更新，原因是在即将到来的几天里将进行禅修（sesshin），期间预计没有时间进行即使是简短的博文发布。作者表示感谢，并透露其博客内容已自动与Less Wrong平台进行交叉发布，简化了原先手动同步的流程。对于Less Wrong的新读者，作者表示欢迎，并解释了此系列更新是为了满足对新书《Fundamental Uncertainty》进展感兴趣的订阅者。

💡 **对Enneagram（九型人格）的见解**：作者高度评价了Michael Valentine Smith关于Enneagram的系列文章，并表示通过这些文章，自己对Enneagram有了更深刻的理解，认识到它能够揭示人们如何陷入自我制造的痛苦循环，并提供摆脱之道。作者计划未来发布关于Enneagram及其与“解放实践”关系的博文，探讨如何通过它减少因自我中心式错觉带来的生活困扰。

📱 **X（原Twitter）平台体验**：作者观察到X平台的算法在近几个月有所恶化，推荐给用户的“为你”动态更多是随机筛选的病毒式内容，而高质量原创内容的比例下降。“关注”动态虽然依然可用，但内容容易被遗漏。作者将其个人帖子参与度相对平稳的状况归因于此，尽管粉丝数量仍在增长。作者还提到了自己获得了社区笔记功能的使用权限，并认为社区的智慧能有效过滤掉明显的错误信息。

🧘 **禅修前的准备**：在文章结尾，作者提到正准备打包禅修所需的物品（oryoki set和rakusu），以应对即将到来的数日坐、站、行、卧的禅修练习。作者以幽默的口吻希望大家在他离开期间不要“烧毁世界”。

Published on July 30, 2025 2:50 PM GMT

As predicted, editing is going much quicker since finishing the massive rewrite of Chapter 2. The revisions for Chapter 3 are done and Chapter 4 is well under way. It’s gotten a bit bogged down with some tricky sections that are hard to word right, and I suspect when I wrote the original draft I left them for my future self to sort out. Thanks, past me!

As promised, I’ve also been publishing weekly, with new posts landing on Wednesdays. I’ve got a large backlog of topics to write about, and the list is getting longer faster than I can write. Hopefully you’ve been enjoying these posts, even if they are a bit less polished than what I would normally publish given the timeline.

That said, I plan to skip next Wednesday: I’ll be away on sesshin for the next few days and don’t expect to have time to get even a quick post done.

Thanks to the kind folks at Less Wrong, my posts are also now automatically cross posting there. This simplifies my life, since I was manually cross posting many of them already. And to all the Less Wrong readers seeing the first of these monthly updates: welcome! This is part of a series of monthly updates for subscribers to Uncertain Updates who are interested in what’s happening with progress on my forthcoming book, Fundamental Uncertainty, and they’re the reason I started the blog. You might find these less interesting on Less Wrong, and hopefully they end up staying off the front page so that random site visitors are not annoyed by them.

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The Enneagram

Michael Valentine Smith has been writing a wonderful series of posts in the last month on his Substack. I’ve found his posts about the Enneagram insightful (and left a bunch of comments saying as much). I never really understood what was up with the Enneagram before and why people found it useful. Now I do (hint: it shows you how to get out of self-created spirals of suffering) and I expect to have some of my own posts about the Enneagram coming and how I think it may relate to liberation practice (i.e. getting your life to suck less because of self-centered delusions).

Here’s links to those posts (so far) if you’d like to read them:

Personality Machines

Ego Spirals

Putting People in Boxes

Sciencing the Enneagram’s Lines

I also recommend his recent posts “The Hostile Telepaths Problem” and “Subjective Science”.

X the Everything App

It’s never been more over, and we’ve never been more back, than right now, on X, the everything app.

The algo has very much changed for the worse in the last couple months. The “for you” feed shows a lot more viral winners picked by random perturbations and less genuinely good posts. The “following” feed remains fine, but stuff gets easily missed.

At least that’s what I tell myself because my follower count keeps going up but my post engagement remains relatively flat. Alas.

I did take a moment to get in on the recent trend of posting lore about myself:

And as you’ll notice in the screen shot, I now have access to Community Notes. There’s a lot of crap people try to post as notes on posts, but thankfully the crowd is wise and the obvious garbage doesn’t make it out of drafts.

And with that, I’ll end. I have to pack my oryoki set and rakusu and get ready for several days of sitting, standing, walking, and lying down. Try not to burn down the world while I’m out in it.

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