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Venkatesh Rao
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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Mar 2019
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      That is the setup. Now imagine a life “work”flow where 90% of the energy is in processes like this and the project/habit parts are trivial. Everything is a thread with an extended past and an indefinitely extended future.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Mar 2019
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      Things that have this character tend to have a someday/maybe character. Nothing must *necessarily* be done, it’s all optional, but you want a certain amount of energy contained in that process. Example: book reading, travel, hobbies, key relationships.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Mar 2019
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      Further, imagine that these processes interact like in a distributed computing system, full of CAP theorem messiness. Your travel inspires your reading inspires your game design hobby inspires more travel. You want to keep this fertile reaction going.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Mar 2019
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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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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Mar 2019
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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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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Mar 2019
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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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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Mar 2019
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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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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Mar 2019
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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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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Mar 2019
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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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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Mar 2019
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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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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Mar 2019
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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

      12:07 AM - 12 Mar 2019
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      • korede Alex "Boreal" Forrest 🚉🎄 Jason Pepas xiq, druid of loom Raj Kunkolienkar 🦁 Kyle Mathews Erik Edin Arijit Bhattacharya Rik, but unironically.
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        1. will minshew‏ @wminshew 12 Mar 2019
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          dunno don't knock yourself too hard I like it

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        1. Shiva‏ @murushiv 12 Mar 2019
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          for instance: systems in a good jam/improv session among musicians?

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        1. Sergey Ukustov‏ @ukstv 12 Mar 2019
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          Random idea: this seems like a (secular) version of personal religion, with regular rituals of compounding nature.

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        1. visa is working on his ebook‏ @visakanv 12 Mar 2019
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          visa is working on his ebook Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

          yo, I basically live in playflow. what you're describing here is *how I live*https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1105334825114730496 …

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          That is the setup. Now imagine a life “work”flow where 90% of the energy is in processes like this and the project/habit parts are trivial. Everything is a thread with an extended past and an indefinitely extended future.
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        1. distracted-dev‏ @DevDistracted 12 Mar 2019
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          I'm feeling a Chinese vibe on this one.

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        2. 達真 (28/30 blog posts in 2020)‏ @tasshinfogleman 12 Mar 2019
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          @threadreaderapp unroll this playful inspiration, please

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