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thinking about volume landmarks (MV/MEV/MRV) in contexts outside of physical training
Maintenance Volume (MV*) - just enough volume to maintain current level.
Minimum Effective Volume (MEV) - just enough volume to induce improvements
Maximum Recoverable Volume (MRV**) - The most amount of volume you can handle before being unable to recover
Minimum Effective Volume (MEV) - just enough volume to induce improvements
Maximum Recoverable Volume (MRV**) - The most amount of volume you can handle before being unable to recover
*"Volume" here is analogous to "amount of work done"
**Yes, using 'M' for 3 different words is confusing
**Yes, using 'M' for 3 different words is confusing
How would you structure your time differently if you knew your MV/MEV/MRV for:
Creative work
Admin work
Coding
Learning
Tweeting
?
Creative work
Admin work
Coding
Learning
Tweeting
?
Janky diagram. Avoid danger zones (though sitting at MV can be useful) 
You can exceed your MRV temporarily to improve your capacity, and push MRV to the right.
Try to do this with every skill at once and you'll fall apart
Try to do this with every skill at once and you'll fall apart
If you take all of your activities and group them together you get your "systematic MRV", some limit you'll hit if you are doing too much. Your systematic MRV < sum( skill MRVs )
What if I want to get better at a bunch of skills?
Pick one skill to push hard for some time. Ramp it up from MEV->MRV->MRV+.
Keep everything else at MV, to avoid decay
Pick one skill to push hard for some time. Ramp it up from MEV->MRV->MRV+.
Keep everything else at MV, to avoid decay
"James you're just talking about periodization again"
...well, yeah. MV/MEV/MRV are just a useful way to frame it
...well, yeah. MV/MEV/MRV are just a useful way to frame it
MV as a concept is a great way to tighten up the ship a bit. Do you really need to keep duolingo installed if you only study Spanish once a month?
MEV is a nice place to be for a lot of activities. Tweet enough to foster discussion but not so much you get sucked in to the vortex.
Check email often enough to not get fired but not so much that you're wasting time.
Check email often enough to not get fired but not so much that you're wasting time.
don't get too serious with quantifying these values.
Knowing that your daily MRV for writing is ~2 hours: useful
Stopping at exactly 120 minutes when you're on a roll because you wanted a concrete number: silly
Knowing that your daily MRV for writing is ~2 hours: useful
Stopping at exactly 120 minutes when you're on a roll because you wanted a concrete number: silly
