The Three Types of Task Control After pondering about the topic for a long time, I took some inspiration from a business-related course I previously attended. Push and pull systems in particular stood out to me because I felt like push and pull systems could be abstraction terms used to describe certain task management systems. (REWRITE IN PROGRESS) In modern society, we’re largely deadline-driven, as it is the easiest method for something to get done....
Finding Suitable Metrics To reiterate, the goal of this benchmarking is to maximize the amount of things done. I think there are two main factors that affect this metric: How much time is actually spent doing tasks How effectively time is spent doing tasks Both factors are not very straightforward to improve, as they tend to get better with practice. However, some measures for anti-procrastination and anti-distraction may help to speed up the progress for the first factor....
Origin TL;DR: Project TTMS is only part of the solution to self-organization. While I was pondering about Project TTMS, I realized that the whole point of an organizational system is to make the process of planning and organizing tasks as seamless as possible, such that I can maximize the amount of effective time (time spent actually doing the tasks). No matter how seamless my self-organizational system is, it doesn’t matter if I cannot actually execute my tasks efficiently....