Showing posts with label execute. Show all posts
Showing posts with label execute. Show all posts
§4. Read Write eXecute Archive
Read your notes, your field, your surrounding, into your heart. Write about, on, over, and through it because you like it. Execute what you avowed, noted, edited, written, and much everything else. Archive elsewhere, anyhow, anywhere that brings you closer to peace.
§5. Take 5
Stop it. Look around. See for
Let it be. Face the facts. Let it all go
What goes around. Around and around and
Feel the heat. Let it simmer. Build pressure. Then
Get your feet moving. One thing at a time. With
All your heart. Just do it. Face it. Enjoy
when all slows down, forget idle steps, look ahead, do one last thing.
What obtains, what you do matters
Planning is not even a dream.
Let it be. Face the facts. Let it all go
What goes around. Around and around and
Feel the heat. Let it simmer. Build pressure. Then
Get your feet moving. One thing at a time. With
All your heart. Just do it. Face it. Enjoy
when all slows down, forget idle steps, look ahead, do one last thing.
What obtains, what you do matters
Planning is not even a dream.
§8. Getting Nothing Done
The point of getting things done is to empty your mind and lower stress by overcoming your inner tyrant. To find peace and empower your self, to have nothing to do. The point of getting things done is to finally get nothing done.
To procrastinate helps you taste that state of mind. Only as some kind of thought experiment, as it lets image what it would be like to have nothing to do. But is this true, is there really a final state of freedom that distinguishes it from procrastination?
To have a method based on the idea of getting nothing done would sound more fitting to my life style.
To procrastinate helps you taste that state of mind. Only as some kind of thought experiment, as it lets image what it would be like to have nothing to do. But is this true, is there really a final state of freedom that distinguishes it from procrastination?
To have a method based on the idea of getting nothing done would sound more fitting to my life style.
§9. Doing Nothing
Origami with executed notes.
Give time, love, gifts.
Pray, read the Bible
Think about your day.
Open the e-reader.
Take care.
Forward-looking focus.
Learn your language.
Focus on persons,
then on objects
under your responsibility.
Invest in resources.
Give time, love, gifts.
Pray, read the Bible
Think about your day.
Open the e-reader.
Take care.
Forward-looking focus.
Learn your language.
Focus on persons,
then on objects
under your responsibility.
Invest in resources.
§11. Deming on Method
Automating a process that produces junk just allows you to produce more junk faster [W. Edwards Deming].
§30. Lowell on Method
A FIXED IDEA
What torture lurks within a single thought
When grown too constant; and however kind,
However welcome still, the weary mind
Aches with its presence. Dull remembrance taught
Remembers on unceasingly; unsought
The old delight is with us but to find
That all recurring joy is pain refined,
Become a habit, and we struggle, caught.
You lie upon my heart as on a nest,
Folded in peace, for you can never know
How crushed I am with having you at rest
Heavy upon my life. I love you so
You bind my freedom from its rightful quest.
In mercy lift your drooping wings and go.
[Amy Lowell]
§35. Not To Do List
A to do list helps list things to do. It doesn't help list things not to do.
Going on social media to socialize may be a thing one wants to do once, and then not do anymore for the day.
Going on social media to socialize may be a thing one wants to do once, and then not do anymore for the day.
§39. Perfecting Usability
Usability. I hate this word. Just another dispositional concept. Operationalism should be dead. For good. A serious thinker shall never convert a behavior into an essence. Like adaptability, intelligence, etc.
I prefer simplicity. It is not dispositional. Not all qualities are. Simplicity sure is essentialist. Use easiness if you consider simplicity is too metaphysical. Use any quality you like. A virtue is nice for an idea of perfection.
Seeking perfection can hinder when we see that what we're doing is not perfect anymore. We stop fighting. But it's the fight that is beautiful, not the product. Perfection seems too easy. There is no opponent.
I prefer simplicity. It is not dispositional. Not all qualities are. Simplicity sure is essentialist. Use easiness if you consider simplicity is too metaphysical. Use any quality you like. A virtue is nice for an idea of perfection.
Seeking perfection can hinder when we see that what we're doing is not perfect anymore. We stop fighting. But it's the fight that is beautiful, not the product. Perfection seems too easy. There is no opponent.
§47. Andrew Hunt on Method
Simple rules, as with the birds simulation, lead to complex behavior. Complex rules, as with the tax law in most countries, lead to stupid behavior.[Andrew Hunt, **The Pragmatic Programmers**]
§54. Adams On Method
Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
[Douglas Adams, **Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency**]
§56. Easier Done than Said
Our man was programming his electronic calendar to remind himself to get up from the chair and move around. It was not working really well. At the end of each day, he could check that task: how could he have not moved all day?
So he started programming his electronic calendar to remind him to do actions. Forty squats at ten; a hundred jumps at eleven, etc. Or simply one of the ten dragon moves
Our man had to do these tasks. It was easier to do these physical tasks than to endure them nagging him from the inbox all day long. The design of his overall todo lists became easier done than said.
So he started programming his electronic calendar to remind him to do actions. Forty squats at ten; a hundred jumps at eleven, etc. Or simply one of the ten dragon moves
Our man had to do these tasks. It was easier to do these physical tasks than to endure them nagging him from the inbox all day long. The design of his overall todo lists became easier done than said.
When to Stop
The calendar keeps stuff to notice. Here is what to do. Here is when.
The calendar keeps stuff unnoticed. Here is what goes without saying.
The calendar could notice when to stop.
The calendar keeps stuff unnoticed. Here is what goes without saying.
The calendar could notice when to stop.
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