Tiago prefers an app like Hours Tracker, where you clock in and out, as opposed to RescueTime, that passively tracks your activity. To actively track your time, you’d say “I am now done with project A, I consciously open my app to clock out of project A, and consciously clock into project B” The point is deliberate awareness of your time allocation, not data collection.” I believe that moods (or less colloquially, states of mind) can be used not just defensively, making the best of… Principle 2: Optimize for intensity (via ACTIVE time tracking) Mood as Extrapolation Engine: Using Emotions to Generate Momentum Here’s a blog post by Tiago on the topic: Momentum is completely defined internally by how you feel. Momentum in knowledge work isn’t like momentum in horseback riding ? or running ?where you see the trees ? as you pass by. Break down work into smaller and smaller packets, to create an accelerating pace of rewards “What really creates momentum is an accelerating pace of rewards. Khe: “What if your task NEEDS cognitive momentum and takes longer than 30 minutes?” 30 minutes), you’ll be able to get things done anytime you have 30 minutes. Instead: you make your packets of work smaller (i.e. If your packets of work are 3 hours, you won’t accomplish anything unless you you have 3 uninterrupted hours - And this is rare. Khe: “But what if it’s a BIG problem that’s taking you a long time?” If you complete 90% of a deliverable, and say you’ll “do the last 10% later”, you have to ramp all the way up again just to finish the last 10%. Why? Because high-value work has a huge of the ramp-up period. Tiago Workflow Deep-Dive Principle 1: Finishing every work session with a clear deliverable or milestone
The bottleneck is: are you using an online calendar? Because for most people, the bottleneck is not which tools you’re using (i.e. They’re very stable and rarely change over time.
For collaborative documents: Google Docs.For knowledge management and general reference material: Evernote.Getting out of bed in the morning is always the first bottleneck.Don’t reinvent the wheel, don’t do things - look for excuses to do things.Push non-value added tasks as late as possible and pull value-added tasks as early as possible.Make pivots to new tasks or working styles as dramatic as possible.Go to extremes of sociability or isolation.Optimize for intensity (via time tracking).Finishing every work session with a clear deliverable or milestone.
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