interest is fractal
i also am going to possess fairly a little to say about consideration management normally, especially with regards to the thought that attention is fractal.
the fractal metaphor is just going to go up to now, but there are a lot of parallels among the concerns "how long is a coastline?" and "how much interest can you pay to something in an hour?" in both cases, the answer keeps increasing the closer you look.
in other words, consideration isn't really measured in time directly but something like details per second, square-inch-seconds of brain activity, or maybe flops if you're talking about a cpu. we don't really have tools to measure it outside of mri lab (though several portable consumer eeg machines are close to market, and they come a little closer), but the point is consideration management and time management are two totally different things.
also, you can't make more time but you can create more focus through the miracle of neuroplasticity.
but anyway... there'll probably be a whole chapter on that, so no point rewriting it here.
deep problems vs wide problems
the other major insight that came to me is the distinction among two types of problems. this kind of fits in with the fractal notion, though at the moment,
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when i say "deep" i'm picturing a deep canyon that has been carved by millions of years of water flowing over the same course. an example would be mastering a specific skill like aikido or playing poker or painting a picture, or developing a framework to solve a particular programming problem. or building a fully automated business.
or for example, i sometimes make the distinction in between writing to explain things to myself. it doesn't matter if i ramble and take 10 pages to get there because the only thing that matters is that the problem winds up solved in my own head. it's like casting a wide net and hoping to catch something good.
but if i want to explain the idea to someone in particular, i need to go back and harvest that concept. rewriting it, simplifying the mental path for my audience and filling in the intuitive leaps.
anyway, i'm a whole lot better at the "wide" approach than at the "deep" approach. i wind up knowing a little bit about a great deal of different things, but i don't have any real expertise.
that means i can look at a new problem from a bazillion different points of view, and come up with a solution rather quickly, but then i have trouble actually implementing a solution. (which, when combined with a tendency to follow lots of little tangents means i wind up with a whole slew of unimplemented ideas - the very definition of the flake effect.)
anyway,
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what are my plans for the book?
well,
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since this is "deep" stuff and i suck at that, there will probably be a lot more to write along those lines. in fact, i may wind up writing enough for a second book before i figure out how to tame the first book.
but i do want to tame the book. go back and refactor the ideas. create an actual organizing structure.
and then what? i don't know. blog about it. maybe sell it as an ebook. maybe work with some clients or start an online community so i'm sure i have a system that works for other people too.
i feel like i've got a complete idea now,
Cheap Windows 7 Enterprise, and it could be a book as-is, but i don't really know if it's useful to anyone besides me, and i also don't know if it'll continue to be useful to me in the months ahead without further improvement. (i need to test it against a requisite variety of situations, as my friend leslie might say.)
anyway, my immediate goal is to use the tools i have now to get caught up on my various responsibilities, and then start working on
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