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Keeping track of stuff
How do you keep track of things?
Here I'm thinking of "things" like "medium-term life progress". Like, at work I'm working on a project with some other people. I have a list of things I need to do in the short term, and I can estimate how long those things take. But the project as a whole has a schedule, and other people are working on their parts. If I'm asked "how is the project going" I'd like to be able to give an answer -- but this involves keeping the schedule, other people's progress, and my own work all in my had and having those things available at the right time.
(I also had a similar problem in my now-former ET corporation position, where in principle I should have been able to keep track of People We're Talking To, but that in my mind is more of a context-switching problem: when I paged the Corporation out, I never put that data anywhere, and so when I needed it again in two weeks it was lost.)
I seem to do fine with my own things. Part of this is having written down on my whiteboard things I expect to do this week. Things that happen on a schedule, like paying bills, are also pretty routine. It's trying to keep track of the larger context that's proving a bit tricky.
Here I'm thinking of "things" like "medium-term life progress". Like, at work I'm working on a project with some other people. I have a list of things I need to do in the short term, and I can estimate how long those things take. But the project as a whole has a schedule, and other people are working on their parts. If I'm asked "how is the project going" I'd like to be able to give an answer -- but this involves keeping the schedule, other people's progress, and my own work all in my had and having those things available at the right time.
(I also had a similar problem in my now-former ET corporation position, where in principle I should have been able to keep track of People We're Talking To, but that in my mind is more of a context-switching problem: when I paged the Corporation out, I never put that data anywhere, and so when I needed it again in two weeks it was lost.)
I seem to do fine with my own things. Part of this is having written down on my whiteboard things I expect to do this week. Things that happen on a schedule, like paying bills, are also pretty routine. It's trying to keep track of the larger context that's proving a bit tricky.