Hard Fun. Taking on a lot of Work to find that Work enjoyable.
Edit: On further reflection I decided to change the summary or title to Hard Fun. Hard fun as meant to discribe the pleasure from some normally torturous exercise like a…
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Gaming, tools, and thoughts from Game in the Brain.
Practice and Knowledge Chunking – It is juggling scarce mental resources
So imagine what kind of practice do you want your brain to have an automatic response to. How complicated and sophisticated the workflow is the greater number of man-hours of…
Read more →Sick Today – so I get to blog. Maxims, Imagination and Role-playing
Having a slight fever and cough so I took a sick day. So i’m learning a lot and writing a lot for work. But I dont get to consolidate a…
Read more →Chinese Studies December 19 to Feb 16
Update Yesterday to December 19. from 5mm grid squares to 3mm. The Chinese in hello talk were always complaining about my how big my writing was. It was because my…
Read more →1-2 Manhours, 4-6 (5 ave) manhour increments.
As I standardize more of my work, the Manhours to get anything done is even more tangible for me. While so many things can be done under 2 minutes significant…
Read more →Defining Management Roles – what will be the weakest link
Any job is pretty much defined by what is known. at chapter 14 in modern construction management – its talking about management role definitions. What is known – particularly knowing…
Read more →2 years of Documentation as a I go. Part 2 of 2
What has changed fundamentally in me is the distrust of the limitation of verbal communications and acting without a Plan. I now have a very great distrust of simplicity, and…
Read more →Pomodoro Technique for Book Studies.
I have about 6-7 Textbooks to study this year, that I can’t just simply Audio Learn. Some of them require a deeper level of knowledge like knowledge relevant to ITIL…
Read more →Dashboards and Visualizations.
When my Gaming and Arts Background Helps in My job is when I need to visualize progress and analysis. A minor example is All Projects are actually Skills. because they…
Read more →Every Process or Program is a Skill.
So it all better be written down. A small pattern has emerged that any program or project I perform takes about 4-6 manhours just to get ready and have a…
Read more →2017-12-15 Rules of thumb
some rules of thumb. 1) if there was no document, then there is no learning. When making a mistake – acknowledging it and documenting it is one of the best…
Read more →Awareness and Focus Mechanics; Songs and the Periods and Peaks
In our Working Memory/Attention and Life we can only be good at the things we focus on. Attention Mechanics Attention. (In a DnD Ability Score like system) We have as…
Read more →Update The Criteria of Understanding
So I’m going to ask our Lean Six Sigma Mentor to give another Training: The flavor of the Month is now Capacity . This were the topics he covered. Note…
Read more →Simplest Team: the Duo
THE SIMPLEST team skill I’ve figured out is Divide and Conquer with Pairing. Pair up and Coordinate very well – then divide the work. Then for every team of Work…
Read more →Serious Concentration Penalties
So my concentration is pretty bad, I didn’t grow up with a lot of people to emulate who were good at focus and concentration, or mindfulness. I live in a…
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2017-11-17
hiatus
Hi from my Hiatus
I have two kids now and I’m trying to turn around the family business, which by experience (of those who know better than me) takes about 3-5 years. So I’m…
Read more →How I (wish to) work: Blocks of Time
It boils down to Blocks of Time. That I never have a perfect uninterrupted block of time. That the ideal is i am able to concentrate – but in reality…
Read more →Walking Through the Process
i walk through the process – like an idiot (because Philippine culture does not value admitting ignorance) . I think i got it from mr. Quilloy, one of my mentors,…
Read more →Can we teach the Value of Planning
We don’t treat other engineers well. We don’t value planning and knowledge. I’m seeing a pattern. We wonder why people don’t pay for the service of Planning and Designing, and…
Read more →Do Stuff > when in Doubt, write the doubts down > Continue doing stuff
Some sudden realization that googling really IS disruptive of the processes. Do Stuff: Write a Plan, the THING, what ever it is. When in Doubt. When I hit a part…
Read more →Understanding and Planning. A developed sense of Doubt.
Doubt as a Mental Muscle. As a mental muscle it means that it is exercised to detect assumptions, the quality of our conclusions, and all the fine and detailed links…
Read more →Installing Ubuntu Kylin 16.04.2 into ASUS X541N 15.6″ Notebook
Total Time of 2-3 hours. Asus X541N Intel 4 Core N3450 Procedure Prepare the USB Boot Drive. I used Rufus in my Windows 10. Inserted it to Notebook before turning…
Read more →Certainty triggering mental discomfort.
The FMEA was what I’m always looking it at with every claim, proposal, or decision. This is that red flag that “Pings” in my head anytime there is “certainty” in…
Read more →Season, Pain, and the Present
We have ebb and flow, we have seasons. It boils down to – we have multiple routines. We have recovery routines, when we’ve taken damage and need to recover. We…
Read more →Letting Go – defining the ability and the exercise.
my son ,listens to headspace and i get this very “letting go” coping mechanism out of it. (Of course I’ve heard of the coping mechanism from many other sources, particularly…
Read more →The dilemma of Monitoring vs Operations.
Monitoring takes a significant resource, for example is Activate Task Manager in my 1,700passmark laptop and i’m up by ram and Cpu goes up significantly. Writing a journal or log…
Read more →So much to do, but I can only do so much. Anxiety and Recovery.
Anxiety of the Unknown in Everything. The anxiety I feel when there are tasks to be done comes from the unknowns. The unknowns typically are from the methodology and requirements…
Read more →Addiction, Dependence, and Functional. – Personal Definitions that are Needed.
My cousin explained to me Dependence (which has a different meaning as in Wikipedia) as something we need to be “Functional”. Addition being something like an obsessions that destroys everything…
Read more →简单但无所不在
Simple but Ubiquitous. very simple things that have a large impact because of frequency and ubiquity in its nature. 这些场合有很大影响由于很高发生率。 Planned vs Actual 比较计划着就究竟事。. Always measure with what is Planned and…
Read more →A Place for things – 5S of the mind and surroundings.
Disclaimer: I am a Slob. So things are new concepts for me. To make an disorganized person organize, is to have him use organization be the method to achieve his…
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