• #pull [[gtd]]

• a [[technique]].
  • [[GTD]] for short. A [[productivity]] method by [[David Allen]].
  • It’s also a book, which I haven’t read; [[Luciana]] has.
  • [[go]] https://hamberg.no/gtd
  • The gist of it:
    • Break down tasks. Be specific.
    • When go through your backlog, like any inbox (including a "main" one, your base field of operations for executing the GTD algorithms), you try to either take any needed action immediately (but only if it’s short; perhaps set a threshold in seconds, rather than minutes) or classify for later doing.
    • My take: as I can, I try to expand items, breaking them down into simpler actions and tagging them (classifying them) with a greater degree of specificity. This makes the tasks more tractable over time.
    • You classify according to [[time]] and [[context]] for the task of doing. Some example tags:
      • [[next action]], [[next week]], [[some day]], [[office]], [[home]], [[project]].
    • [[next action]] is where a lot of the magic happens. At some point something needs to be your [[next action]] to get done :)
  • I’m trying using [[Getting Things Done]] in the [[Agora]]:
    • Actions are wikilinks (I don’t distinguish between links and tags; they’re all just nodes).
    • [[read]], [[research]], [[write]].
    • [[next action]] -> [[do]]
    • [[some day]].
    • [[agora plan]].
    • [[do]] acts as an index/root node of the GTD system; whenever I don’t know what to do, I just visit [[do]] :)

What you’ll wish you’d known

• It’s hard to decide what job you want
• You don’t learn in high school waht to do with your life
• Work forward from promising situations rather than working backwards from a goal: this ensures that you’re using your time efficiently!
• ‘Stay upwind’ -> ‘work on hard problems’. Treat school like a day job, work at your passions at night. You’re wasting far too much time agonizing and procrastinating anyways.

Start working despite not feeling like it

How to Use the the "2-Minute Rule" to Stop Procrastinating Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time | Hacker News https://www.deprocrastination.co/blog/3-tricks-to-start-working-despite-not-feeling-like-it

• ‘Screw it, let’s do it’
• Start sloppy
• Start small

how do you self study? having ‘grit’ how to remember what you read: implement some of these strategies !! Five whys - Wikipedia A Step by Step Guide to Life Prioritization - Tynan Getting Boxes Done Ask HN: How do you develop internal motivation? | Hacker News

how to do hard things

https://www.drmaciver.com/2019/05/how-to-do-hard-things/

• find something similar to the hard thing but easy
• modify the easy thing to have exacly one thing that is hard
• do modified thing until it is no longer hard

circle of competence mindset

Understanding your Circle of Competence: How Warren Buffett Avoids Problems -…

Getting Things Done