Messy, big projects create a region of attraction in your life. Besides the stuff you track, they induce implicit structure in your unstructured activity like tweeting, things you notice (primed attention zone) etc. The weight in that unstructured region = ambiguity in why/how.
Just spent 10 minutes sketching out a design for this and I could do it in matlab now... just not in any usably productized form I could share with others (currently a spreadsheet model)
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The trick is to recognize what's actually being done here: translating projects between internal and external reference frames, where analysis leads can lead to different priorities for what to do next. Kinda like the key idea in The Inner Game of Tennis codified.
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Scott Adams almost got it right with his systems versus goals essay, but he missed a key point that systemic habits only achieve different results from goals if they are based in an internal reference frame, required for learning them quickly and stabilizing them
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