so I'm going to start doing a thing called "pick a project"
when I know I've got such-and-such chunk of time in which I'm going to be stuck somewhere or just can't "do life stuff", i.e., my mom visits for a few weeks, or I visit my mom, or some other thing, whatever
then I pick one of my in-progress projects as "this is the thing I'm working on lately" and in my 'down time' from whatever I'm stuck doing, I work on THAT
a 'second main task', and if I finish? awesome bonus, right? :)
@sydneyfalk hey, "find something to do and then do it" is a hard problem for brainweird folks like us, especially when our routines get Disrupted
and that's a really clever solution
here's hoping, it's got to get me through a nearly solid month of Hey, All Your Shit Is Planned Out, Sydney! Just Fucking Keep Up For Once!™ and I've never managed that for a solid month before
like I'm REALLY good at getting hyperfocused on the wrong things, getting too deep in X game or Y stories or whatever, and
when I CAN'T do those things I 'need' something else to hyperfocus on
so if my 'dammit get writing Syd' urge is coming back (and it is)
might as well leverage it!
of course, it also makes sense in a 'larger' context -- I can't keep a ton of shit in my head simultaneously, so I won't
I'll pick two
if thing one is Nebulous! Messy! [REDACTED]! Kerfufflefuck! then
thing two should probably be something I'm competent at so that I can make definitive progress with it
in general
so now I have another vague strategy tool for Getting Shit Done™, as Horatio said
@sydneyfalk yesssssss, i <3 structuring my life so that it takes the minimum possible amount of executive function per unit of accomplishment (for whatever value of accomplishment)
> minimum possible amount of executive function per unit of accomplishment
this is an excellent phrasing for the phenomenon I'm trying to chase, yes
the less I think about things, the more gets done, so -- I just try to think about them as little as possible
(but that sounds TERRIBLE to people, so I never SAY it)
hehe, would it sound better if you framed it as an Efficiency thing, minimizing "overhead" per unit of "real work" done? or is that too lifehack-y?
there's value-neutral(-ish) Science behind it though! a lot of the ADHD literature is about how all the ~skills~ you can teach someone aren't useful unless you make the right accommodations "at the point of performance" (i.e. the real-life context where they need to use the skill)
i watched a great talk on this but i can't find it :/
(I understand in theory I've just invented basically nothing more than a "second job" but for ME, at an organizational level, this is a way I can handle it, so -- major progress for Ms. Unorganized, let me tell you what.)