Processes differ from projects in that they are self-perpetuating and termination is a pathology. Book readers will always have a queue. Book reading is an infinite game. Empty queue = death. You will always try to continue the game. Not “work” towards “last book, then I’m done”
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Now... design a system like GTD where the “process” is the first class citizen, indefinitely extended memory is valuable, there are no due dates, nothing *must* be done, and the governing spirit is play not work. So this is a “playflow” design challenge.
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Despite lots of serious things going on in the world, more and more energy is shifting from “work” like activities to “play” like. Either actual play, or work disguised as play via gamification. So we need playflow systems.
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Aside: I've written about this before a couple of times. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/07/21/inbox-zero-versus-flow-laminar/ … and less relevantlyhttps://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/05/28/the-amazing-shrinking-org-chart/ …
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Scott Adams' "Systems Over Goals" idea is also loosely rhyming here.https://blog.dilbert.com/2013/11/18/goals-vs-systems/ …
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Three states of life "Settled down" like your parents want = 90% of your energy is in "habits" "Exploring life" like you do in your 20s and think you'll want to do forever = 90% of your energy is in "projects" Both are recipes for misery after 30.
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You need 90% energy in processes that won't terminate till you die, but aren't habits or projects. Each also has an associated "system" that grows continuously over your lifetime, and ideally reaches perfection 1 minute before you die.
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Suspicion: best playflow models will also be social in nature, and "store" state in relationship states with other people to the extent possible. Ie every robust playflow stream line is a relationship state as well (with a coach, sport partner, anthropomorphized thing, etc)
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Wish I were more artistic in capturing the right-brained imagery where my ideas usually start. This is a rough picture of my starting point for this thread.pic.twitter.com/Q0shuVPGkH
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