Over the last few months I’ve successfully shifted about half my play and work life to a process-dominant model as opposed to project- or habit-dominant. It’s like the difference between flowing highway driving and stop-go city traffic in a gridlock.
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Pros: - Getting more done - Self-propelled flow instead of external-event-driven - Bigger activities naturally getting chunked to move - Higher “bandwidth” overall - Small-brain feel - Way higher parallel processing - Lower context-switching costs - World as serverless server
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Cons: - If it isn’t part of a “registered” process, it’s hard to do - Interrupts are more disorienting - Tiring due to net higher switching costs* - Only works with a social loop so far - Tunnel vision, flow inertia - Low global situation awareness; ant-brain * Jevon’s paradox
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A problem I anticipate if I add too many more threads is 1-step-forward/2-steps-back syndrome due to increasing mean-time-between-touches. Writing 900 words in 3x300 chunks separated by weeks causes state decay. This may need a trick where related threads braid around each other.
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Process-first playflow is unnatural for me. I am used to long periods of idleness punctuated by heroic heavy lifts. This mode is more like an endless slow-paced marathon, with heightened vigilance around “correct form” in the sense of using correct technique in sports.
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This whole approach feels like a factory or fast-food prep behavior mode, except applied to messy information work with very low external environment scaffolding. Like a river but without a channel to flow in. The channel is inside the flow almost. Elan vital ftw.
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Would love read a more detailed writeup on your goals for this. This is getting at something that resonates with me but I'm curious what actions you took to do so. If you read something that prompted this, please post!
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No goals. Just doing whatever I can to speed up life.
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