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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Replying to @vgr
What would be really nice is if this were baked into your computer, such that you automatically got reports as to what you were actually doing, and some sort of visual representation re: project status.
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Replying to @PereGrimmer
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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Replying to @vgr @PereGrimmer
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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Replying to @vgr @PereGrimmer
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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Replying to @vgr
I've had so many thoughts along these lines, and read fairly deeply about them, that I'll refrain from comment here, as I don't want to render your timeline turgid.
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I'm trying to get this thinking out of my own head and drafts and into public posts where it can serve as a foundation for conversations like this. Right now, it's about 50% in my head, 30% in drafts, 20% published.
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