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07-04-2026For the past few years I have become intrigued with "process"
Specifically I am interested in how people use processes:
This post is about how I plan to improve my life by learning and implementing new processes.
If you have a problem you need to solve and there is a social sphere around solving that problem, there is probably a book about it.
These are the problems I want to solve and the books I think will help me.
| Problem | Book/Resource |
|---|---|
| Taking notes in a way that generates new ideas | A System for Writing by Bob Doto |
| Managing and completing commitments | Getting Things Done by David Allen |
| Learning new skills | Ultralearning by Scott H. Young |
| Get better at managing my money | ??? |
I once had a conversation with a programmer who was very knowledgable about parsers.
I was talking about how I think you could learn alot by trying to make a programming language without doing a bunch of pre-requisite work.
They told me that while I would probably come up with alot of the basics after trial and error, it is not a good idea to reinvent LR parsing from first principles.
This is the mindset I am approaching when it comes to life improvement.
If you know the problems you are facing and you know that other people have faced similar problems why would you make it harder on yourself and reinvent the wheel
That being said, trying to apply someone elses system to your situation 1:1 is also not a great solution.
You must learn to either adapt the system in a way where its principles remain in tact or discard a system that is not useful for solving your specific problem.
Part of my goal in learning all these systems, frameworks, systems, whatever is being able to parlay them into a "Meta System" that helps solve many of my problems.
In a previous blog post I discuss how both Zettelkasten and GTD rely on an "Inbox"
If you were to implement both GTD and Zettelkasten it would be silly to have seperate inboxes because the point of those inboxes is to store fleeting notes or obligations you need to process.
While these systems are both for different purposes, there are ways you can streamline your productivity workflow in a way that makes use of both of them.
Your Habit Circuitry is an excellent tool for productivity.
The idea that you can do the same thing every day and over time it will take less cognitive energy is extremely appealing to me.
This is part of my obession with "process".
There are only 2 hard parts of intentionally forming a habit.
The first one is solved by developing the process or routine.
By taking the pre-established frameworks and adapting them to our needs we just need to formalise the actions we are going to take and then act on them over a long enough time until they become automatic.
One tip I suggest is getting in a good flow with one habit before introducing another.
Do not try to overload yourself with too many habits at once.
Once you feel that the behaviour is becoming automatic (for me usually about a week or so), try introducing the new behaviour. If that new behaviour makes the previous one suffer then quit it for now and keep trying to build on the first one.
So that is my epic plan to solve my life forever...
Identify problem, find credible resource that helps solve problem, adapt resources process to my needs, implement and iterate until it becomes a habit.
Look at this cool CSS thing I found
If you add a border and animate the style to switch between inset and outset it looks like a button being pressed:
If you speed it up it looks like your pressing it really fast:
I read most of chapter 2 of A System for Writing.
I will have to catch up in the coming days
If I can finish 2 and 3 tomorrow and then 4 and 5 the next days then I will be back on track!
I was thinking about how granular something like a wiki can become and if that is a good thing
There is a limit to how much detail you can get into in 1 page but there I think you should go at least one level deeper and link to a page on those elements.
You could have like a wiki page on the brain and say the brain is made up of X, Y and Z then you would link to X, Y and Z. Y could be made up of V and W and so on.
Another idea was how Newtons Laws of Motion teach you how to learn everything...
This one is alot more loose but the idea is that because it describes the relationships between objects and forces, learning something is a matter of learning about the objects and forces present? If that makes sense?
Like if you want to learn how to use a programming language you would need to learn about variables and how to manipulate them.
So the objects could be variables or data types or whatever and the forces are keywords, functions, methods. Something like that.
If you have some thoughts please get in freaking contact... forever...
And of course! Thank you for reading.....