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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The biggest adjustment in becoming a professional is realizing that your external products are to be judged by external standards, which are often unknown; thus, it is oft best to send a half-baked draft to superiors to essay whether it is "good enough" - it is if they say so.
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1/(You brought up Scott Adams - a big piece of advice, perhaps implicit, in his works is that you can A/B test your external products; what YOU think is funny is often not what the AUDIENCE thinks is funny, and you need empirical testing to figure it out. But if you are attached
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The key is to purposely introduce chance elements into your thinking. Other benefits: avoid ruminating about the topic before you sit down to work-related for me, entirely unproductive. Other benefits: stop OCD overwork and give your output a chance to 'rest' before judging
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