AH vs. BW is debatable here. Pigs is strong food. But definitely you want BW asap in most situations. So TW/POT could wait. I think AH>BW>Writing might have been best here. This start does not scream Pottery.
So far you have left a tremendous amount of production on the table, both from chops and whips. You are sitting with Dam at Size 6 and unhappy. Granted I think you just switch to slavery, but a new settler should already be in the queue or out.
I'm thinking first city could be 1W of the corn N of Dam, and the 2rd city 1W of the Bronze. Utrecht 1W of that corn could share stuff with Dam, while city 1W of Bronze has a bit of cottage potential there, while that city and Utrecht share Bronze as needed. That's 3 good cities in close proximity with good tile sharing potential and plenty of food. Cottaging plains tiles would not have been a priority at this stage, granted you probably should not have POT at this stage anyway if things were done differently.
Yes, ideally with a Shadow game you get advice from the very first turn. Turn 0 advice involves analyzing the map for settling decisions and moving the starting warrior or scout to best view the map to help with that decision. 10T sets are advisable at first at least, although after the T0 review, one can generally play the first turnset until the worker pops.
What these first 50 turns you played do for us is give as a good impression of where you stand with your game in terms of early start, so we can start correcting some of the mistakes and misconceptions.
I recommend a replay here to redo these turns and see if we can improve on the result these first 50 turns. Practice here only benefits you anyway. Also, go forward, as you report each turnset, feel free to lay a short plan on what you will perform next set - techs/builds/improvements-worker actions.
