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Anybody have any good tricks you use to “stage” an extended effort? Examples: Dry runs/rehearsals Mockups Putting non-critical scaffolding in place even Acquiring presentation material (business cards, schwag, suit) About pages Signing up for services before they’re needed
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Staging is logically unnecessary, but psychologically valuable out-of-order execution so that a lot of the work-in-progress evolves in a context as close to execution or launch context as possible Dress the project for the job it wants, not the job it has
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Waterfall planning works to the extent it is about conscious staging It fails to the extent it’s about creating a false sense of security around uncertainty Don’t make Gantt charts where there are no actual constraints, do dry runs of launch day and work backwards instead
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On the woo end, visualization works to the extent it is about staging It fails to the extent it’s about catalyzing motivation via desires/aversions Ie it is advance behavioral conditioning
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seems like you're talking about opening thought loops? e.g. I might open Twitter when I open laptop, but also open the folder containing the paper or presentation I'll be working on today, so I see it when closing Twitter
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