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Evolution of my Chinese Studies

Personal Studies evolve. Because of changing circumstance, new information, trial and error, and personal life changes. So many better habits could have been learned prior to me jumping into Chinese…

So many wrong things with Nagging

I hate Random, Sporadic, Follow up methodology of getting tasks done AKA THE NAGGING METHOD. It tends to make people FILTER out distractions OR make people live in constant distracted…

Learning Skills, particularly New Skills.

Learning a New Skill: Key Metrics Document what you do/Do what you document – and adapt to changing conditions, and new information. All analysis and understanding begins with working with…

汉语学业新笔记

Pleco scoring is 100 is default,  doubles even correct answer -40% every incorrect answer the score determines how many days till next time the card is up for review.  So…

Main Statement + Optional Clarification requires Goodfaith or Steelman

Sunday, 14 May, 2017 12:20:41 PM PHT main statement + Optional Clarification requires goodfaith or steelman Because its easy to leap in and assume the other person did not think…

30*2^1/X days habit conditioning.

My Guess and attempt to model conditioning curves. So if we are fully engaged in a habit 7/7 days a week. Then we have 60 days of conditioning. Otherwise its:…

I draw from 1.5 hours of passive thinking for 1 hour of writing.

I’ve always assumed that the 300-400 words per hour composition is an oversimplification. That we draw from a lot of our other experiences and thoughts to produce those 300-400 words…

Training by Routine

This is a result of my reflection of training at work, for myself, my son’s schooling, and my military history studies. Lifestyle Conditioning should be at least 2 months if…

Learning more from Operations Processes, than Self Help

So lately I find myself lately learning more from the CRM process book than from science book. When the wife was asking about Grit, by Angela Duckworth, I realize that…

World Building as we Play

There is more World Building Tools and Settings than the market can explore, learn, use, and share. That at this point everyone is making worlds and making tools to allow…

Knowledge to Action Plan

A knowledge book can best be measured by how well it puts knowledge into Action. We need to begin our education with an Action Plan – a way to cycle…

汉语学业新笔记 158字

Methodology Upgrade: Formula, Definitions, Example, and Anki Deck

I updated the Gaming List  document to be more actionable. Basically i now added a methodology section as to state how it go about it. My methodology improvement is inspired by…

Touch Time and Value Adding to Ideas in RPG Collaboration

There is a concept of Touch Time in Lean Six Sigma time and Motion Studies (Aka processing time). Its brilliant and simple way of measuring waste. Its basically the actual time the…

My Biases/Criteria of RPG Review, Looking for Feedback

I’ve been ask to review an RPG and I realized that this Criteria I have is worth publishing for feedback. All review is subject to the Bias of the Individual…

80% Storytelling Techniques, and 20% system mechanics

Its easy to progress in Game mechanics since there are so many to learn, but the Collaborative Storytelling, Preparation, and Session Running seems to have a greater weight per Scene…

Portable desktop Reference Holder Prototype

My goal was to 5S my workflow. Have all the processes, references, hot-keys, techniques, notes, etc… accessible at a glance. I plan to put Gdrive Hotkeys, Functions, as well as…

What would have been Different?

There are periods when work seems too daunting and I panic inside. When I panic I really want to escape into my games. Especially now that I have more skills…

Index Card RPG

I’ve discussed Index Cards as a key tool for RPGs before. I’ve not had the inspiration or the framework to make a fairly complete system until I saw +Matthew Isom‘s post…

My Hypothesis of Memory

Spaced Repetition can also be described as Spaced Repeated Triggering.  Spaced Repetition (SR) Works at a Kinesthesis and Perceptual level.  SR This works with Improv. That Improv is recalling a…

Testing Heuristic, Heuristic Documentation

Testing Heuristic Trigger. Uncertainty to the Best Approach Start in any method but keep a Short Feedback Loop. When in doubt or uncertain or Lacking information then we can go…

汉语学业新笔记

Currently i have an ongoing understanding of Spaced Repetition and its peculiarities.  My Pleco Settings Profile Name. Meaning only. HSK 1-3 (600 words) Basic Settings Card Categories: HSK 1-3 (600…

Mental 5S

Mental 5S should have been one of the first things I learned growing up. Considering our mind as our primary workspace it means a lot to be able to keep…

Improvisation hypothesis: Ideation Techniques

from the Gaming Skills Open Doc* So I just finished Unframed by Engine Publishing. Among my other studies (found in the Gaming Skills doc) is that one unifying hypothesis is…

Hypothesis of Engaging Details

Hypothesis: That introducing details that serve the narrative in a way that helps us connect with complexity found in society, history, ecology, economy and technology helps us connect to such…

TRPG Books as Process Documents

*That TRPGs moving to a shorter feedbackloop with the community through using best practices in Operations Sciences would create more powerful tools and newer better value services and material in…

Ubuntu Persistent USB Drives

All you need to know about Persistend USB Drives can be found here in the mkusb. What I’m posting about is some stuff I didnt see and had to test…

Positive feedbackloops

Personal Improvement In Taichii Onno points out there is a Time and Place for everything. While in process engineering we STOP the bad thing immediately, we sometimes have to ride…

Leadership Styles

I am annoyed when the idea of leadership or management is Ordering People around. Life and Work is just so much more complicated than that I have a bad reaction…

Game Mastering Research Update; leave it to Gamers to Game Self Improvement.

So I’m preoccupied in updating my Game Mastering Skills and Heuristics Document. I found this so much easier to update than blog posts because blog posts have an expectation to…