I'm realizing that the thing happening to this blog is exactly what DRMacIver described:
The easiest way to have this is by writing too many good posts! It’s very easy to let your standards creep too high, and you won’t be able to sustain that indefinitely. It’s good to write good posts from time to time, but you’re not going to be able to do it every day.
My recommendation is that to counteract this you should deliberately half-arse your posts at least a couple days per week. Pick a prompt and do the bare minimum amount of work needed to fulfill it.
The posts I've been writing for the past few days take a lot of time, and when I started one last night I wrote 500 words and didn't even get past the introduction. I think that's good enough reason to skip, since otherwise I'd just split the longer essay into two parts, one post each, which I don't like the aesthetics of. But I just generally think that it's not that sustainable to push myself to write a full 400-900 word post every day, when I also need to sleep in order to make the next day go well. (The posts usually take from 15 minutes to an hour to write - I do no editing aside from what I normally do while writing.) Still, I kind of like the idea of writing an average of ~500 words a day, since that means that every 3 months I've produced about a book's worth of writing.
Okay, so I just wrote all that and it turns out I kind of just write a lot very easily when let on my own. I think I still haven't fully updated on how easy it is to just write, so I've felt an undue ugh-field around finishing the aforementioned half-written post. But, okay, let's stop the stream-of-consciousness writing and get to the short thing I was actually wanting to write about:
Normies assume high-voltage agents don't exist, while schizos assume high voltage actors are common. But really, both are wrong: high-voltage actors are rare but real. Nearly all people and systems act as low-voltage agents nearly all of the time, but high-voltage agents can exist.
"High voltage" as a metaphor implies something about what makes someone a 'high-voltage agent.' From what I understand, in electromagnetism, high voltage implies a powerful electric field, which causes very significant electron movement following it. The local gradient of the potential landscape (i.e. the electric field) being extremely strong causes the electrons to ignore typical constraints on their motion. So a 'high voltage' metaphor implies that some sort of large energy difference is causing uncharacteristically high motivation and agency on a local level, allowing the overall behavior to completely ignore typical constraints.
Okay, so it turns out I did accidentally write nearly 500 words, once again. And then I spent an hour talking to Claude about hyperstition. Oops. I'll leave this post at that, and catch you next time.