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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.
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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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Example: if you have a list of projects and every morning you decide to pick the most important one to spend 2 hours on, you'll probably thrash and fail if there's significant how/why ambiguity in all of them...
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But if you translate to inner, then result might pop out that it doesn't matter which project you prioritize on a give day, but that you practice making decisions earlier to hit the Bezos Point of 70% sure instead of your comfort zone of say 95%
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A trick I found: choose 1 topic at random from your bag of topics. Work min 3 and max 5 hrs on the topic, excluding breaks. If you succeed, set the topic aside for the next phase. If you fail, put the topic back in the bag for another chance.
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