Thread by @Jeanvaljean689

1/ Today is my first day of trying to really hone-down a "prediction-based workflow" and so far I'm really loving it.

The basic premise: at 8PM last night I gave myself fifteen minutes to run an imaginary preview of today, highlighting tasks and challenges I thought I'd face.

2/ Key - I also wrote all this down, to keep myself accountable

One way to conceptualize this is with the "managing self-creative self" split.

I was giving my "manager" fifteen minutes to "coach the team" last night. White board, chalk arrows the whole deal.

3/ This AM, I woke, slonked some vitamins and coffee, and the "prediction" was fresh in my mind.

Good to go!

The first and probably most interesting observation was that I then became acutely aware of exactly when I was at risk of diverging from the predicted plan.

4/ This kicks in like a "spidey sense" - a feeling of dissonance, a "wait, this is not what you said you'd be doing" moment.

Which is fine. In fact it's super helpful!

Because the result has been, so far (it's now 7:25AM where I am), a more productive dialogue betw manager -->

5/ and creator-selves!

Win-Win!

Example: Creator self just said, hey, I really want to write this down. I want to write a Twitterthread!

Mgr: Cool Cool. Do it. Just get back to your 7:30AM task like we agreed.

Haha - and with that, my friends, my two selves bid you adieu!

cc: @brandontoner and @AGWilsonn

6/ real time update it's 10:58AM and things are going strong

One BIG thing I'm noticing is an increase in real-time, meaningful negotiations between "manager self" and "creative self"

Right now "creative self" is all, "Yeah, I really WANT a fifteen minute exercise break, but.."

7/ Manager self is all, "OK fine but are you sure you'll still have time to get in the work you visualized getting done, before your 1PM commit in two hours?"

creative self pauses and says "yep, pretty much, AND I'll feel more energized."

Mgr-self: OK fine.

And so: it's on.

oops broke my own thread somehow. here the numerical ordering back again ...

https://twitter.com/Jeanvaljean689/status/1319338294426046464?s=20

8/ continuing -

wow this is going really well; best way I can describe how it feels to have hold last night's "prediction" in-mind is:

things are more LUCID.

Gonna write more later;

but bookmarking-topics-for-self-to-write-up-ltr: interstitial "events", "decision fatigue"

9/ Quick wrap-up because I am now (8:30PM) "predicting" tomorrow.

Lots more to say about what I learned; + not enough time RN.

I'll do a fuller write-up when time permits ... meanwhile the experiment continues... tomorrow is 2nd iteration, and already in clearer focus.

Yay!

10/ day 2

6.08 AM going through yesterday's prediction brought two things to mind that I missed... this is a great safety net

Visualizing concomitant details helps... I visualized going for a run in the dark while wearing blue flashing LED so now I remember the LED

11/ the beauty is, that I'm already refining and enriching the predictions/visualizations that I made last night

Haha, I am surfing, on a wave made out of time

Ok going for run now.

12/ one very inception-like quality to all this, is that I am now making predictions from within frame of the prediction, as I go

Of course... that's what I was doing all along, but the experiment just made me more aware of this.

It's at the surface of my consciousness now.

13/ fascinating... all the little "pain points" in yesterday's prediction are quickly surfacing, and I am finding quick pre-emptive fixes for them as I go

It's like the movie "memento" except turned inside out

Time and intention acquiring compound interest instead of overdrawn.

14/ biggest difference I can "feel" so far, is that my "prediction" process is based on desire, as much as possible, and the compulsive "must do" of my old to do lists has melted like snow in the sunlight.

(My Colorado inner-kid had to put that there)