017: anticipation of the end

459 words.

The first part is being typed out while commuting to work.

I’m currently in a low-energy, low-temptation state. Have been toying with this framework to find a better fit between type of work and energy levels.

Even types of work now have ‘temptation’.

I’m procrastinating by attempting to write pithy tweets, or consuming content. The hard part is integrating the lessons from what I’m consumed to my knowledge base

I would like to spend time on the expansion on the purpose of my knowledge base. In the grand scheme of things, I’m not sure yet, but beginning to find the tug towards a purpose

The following is typed on the phone at 6.30pm.

Exploration of what I find passionate is found through discovery through action and reflection through writing:

The drive to make things smooth and efficient, saving everyone’s time and energy

Or put in more concise terms: Why 8 people when 3 is enough?

As a result of this immersion, my lens is beginning to be dominated by seeing processes and workflows. Starting to be able to see the construction process of the inner worlds of other.

But what else am I missing?

I’m currently in high-energy, low-temptation state. The draw to shiny things remains strong but there’s the will to stay on this.  Knowing that willpower is a limited resource, how do we design the environment to help our decision-making?

Very broad question, but this could be a key idea here. At this point, I am setting a timer for 5 minutes, to just write everything I have. In the spirit of environmental design, I’m noting this down for future learning.

I feel there is a long-standing battle in culture between effort and impact. Value is not borne through the cost of blood, sweat and tears.

The evangelists of effort continue to shed them, in hopes of the value-generating function being increasing with respect to effort. Thus depleting their stores of such. The rest know better, trying to unpack the function first before committing.

This timer thing is then an experiment to check how a constraint in time can overcome the activation energy of the difficult task (this stream of consciousness). Considering that words are still being put on the page, this timer thing could be a success in terms of forcing the continuous writing of words.

One distraction is still the anticipation of the end. Maybe akin to how we carry ourselves depending on when we project our end to be.

Knowing the end is near, we try to wrap up and close as many things as possible. If not, we open many loops in hope of striking the jackpot.