It was in the undoing project by Michael Lewis I adopted the test: knowledge must be predictive. That knowing something should help us make better decisions.
I found this a helpful tool: the action scale. Basically is group tasks and activities, into 1 min, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 min scales of time. This assumes a 2 minute action is 1-2 minutes. It’s half to the full time allotment. I plan to use this in RPGs as well.
Then being more aware and using this overly simple categorization we begin to:
I found this a helpful tool: the action scale. Basically is group tasks and activities, into 1 min, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 min scales of time. This assumes a 2 minute action is 1-2 minutes. It’s half to the full time allotment. I plan to use this in RPGs as well.
Then being more aware and using this overly simple categorization we begin to:
- question how we spend our time. Question our assumptions on how much time an action, distraction, transaction etc… By knowing how much time we spend in actions we decide on better ways to use our time and to improve the activities we perform. An easy goal is to move it down an category. We have a fundamental cornerstone of how we value our time and that of others.
- We begin to categorize our actions and then begin to set goals, budgets, limits, and start learning all the ancillary actions and factors to the actions. We have what begins to be documentation of small skills and tricks. An internal feedback mechanism in doing things so we slowly improve or figure out where we suck.
- We begin with our assumptions and straight forward guesses only to be hit back with the overwhelming things we failed to consider: like risk, costs, skill, opportunity costs, contingencies etc… This gets detailed and our narrative engine of a mind begin to collect stories (narrtives) of our journey through particular skill and task pursuits.
So this action scale of time has evolved form the 2 min rule or 2 second rule in the Operations Manual as well as trying to organize how i do things. What category does this blogging fall under? Does it help me in the future? How long does it really take to Google vs to Ask the internet, or Go through a basic list of how to Google (ex. finding a book on something: first Google, Google Books, Guttenberg, use related search term etc… and how much time each inquiry takes and the appreciation of how much time to find stuff myself vs asking others’ when i’ve eliminated all other means. )
So I’m slowly assembling gant charts and documenting how I document. And little by little, I’m learning how much work certain things take and document it so that the next guy (my son and my collegues) can use the tools and improve on the processes. As I tell my son (and daughter when she becomes older): their job is to be better than me, and when I’m laid out in a blog for him to improve on its much easier for him.
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