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