Habits are learning projects. Other projects are “win to finish” finite games. Both live for a while in a system like GTD and then pass on. Habits till they’re learned, other projects till you’ve won or lost. Processes are neither. They are death-do-us-part activity threads.
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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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I use a kanban card app for processes. When a process inspires a task, that goes in a separate to-do app. That way infinite processes do not get contaminated by finite tasks. The boards are where I play around with where I might put my attention, like "travel" or "cooking".
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I think I need another pass before I get processes v projects.
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