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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 13
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      Prioritization is the communism of attention management 😖 Do or do not. There is no priority. Once you make a list of things that need doing, and prioritize them according to any metric at all, you can guarantee you will want to do something that’s not in the list at all.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 13
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      I have never once in my life actually worked down and through a prioritized list, though I’ve often made them.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 13
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      Every prioritized list for me is simple a reverse-neglect order.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 13
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      I can only do things in my peripheral vision

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 13
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      How to hit the bulls eye. Step 1: throw the dart Step 2: paint the bulls eye

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 13
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

      This tweet is true, but the dark side is that there are days I fall into the prioritization trap and do zero things instead of 1 thing.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1249913645376524289 …

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      Venkatesh Rao @vgr
      I’m a bit like Bender. I can only do 1 thing in a day, big or small. So an easy meeting that takes an hour uses up my day just as much as a 10 hour heavy lift writing an essay. So I’m most productive when I have a series of day-sized things to do. pic.twitter.com/Xt3qDNuYNs
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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 13
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

          Some days I do end up doing multiple things, but only when I’m being driven by other people’s priorities. And then it wipes me out. Left to my own devices I’m on the 1 thing/day plan.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1279258375088271360 …

          Venkatesh Rao added,

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          Damn what a week. I did more than one thing per day on at least 3 days. How the hell do you guys do this all the time.
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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 13
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          I did 1 thing on my own initiative today, and 2 small client things that didn’t require any initiative on my part. The scarce commodity is initiative I think. Reactive autopilot is merely draining, since it uses an existing fixed orientation or borrowed orientation.

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        4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 13
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          So to say you can only do 1 thing per day is to say you can only bootstrap an orientation on your own once per day. I’m currently on 1/day, but when younger I could do 3-4/day. Without even taking a nap.

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        5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 13
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          Manager time vs maker time is a special case. A manager doing 4 one-hour things and a maker doing one 4-hour thing are both likely in a single orientation throughout. Most managers only have a single “business” orientation. They run through several *situations* between breaks.

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        6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 13
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          Real breaks are the “tells” of reorientation. A nap is the most extreme reset.

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        7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 13
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          One way Covid has been hard on me is that my reset breaks used to be location changes. No third place means no second wind in a day. Orientation = new wind 🤔

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        8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 13
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          I can’t even do a little mid-day loop walk these days because of heat and pollution. And the “gym” instead of being a pleasant break is an annoying reconfiguration of bedroom (we have a weight bench and bowflex weights but it’s in a cramped space that takes some confit to useO

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        9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 13
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          Considering the cycling thing some life hacker types do, where for 3 weeks you’re mainly on one project. Hard to do around consulting since that’s unpredictable demand. My work-week is 2 days earmarked for writing 2 newsletters and 3 open days.

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        10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 13
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          1-2 of those days are typically consulting, so typically I only have 1 day a week to do pure initiative things (writing is not reactive, but is not full-stack orientation either, more like half-stack)

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        11. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 13
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          Hmm. Context switching and reorientation might be one of the main affordances of public and communal spaces. If everybody is trapped indoors, general reorientation rates go way down. Public = quadruple jeopardy right now: covid, heat, pollution, trumpism.

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        12. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 13
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted TheAveragePM

          Yeah we should call them to-not-do lists.https://twitter.com/AveragePm/status/1316227916087394304 …

          Venkatesh Rao added,

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          This struck a chord with me. I just make lists of things I don’t want to do. The other stuff gets done when it comes up.
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