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<h2 id="orgfdadc1b">Week 3, 2023, &ldquo;Week of Systems&rdquo; report</h2>
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<li><a href="#org94ac068">Week 3, 2023, &ldquo;Week of Systems&rdquo; report</a>
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<li><a href="#org8cace56">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="#orgd34af51">Desirable Traits</a></li>
<li><a href="#orgd2cc5fb">Specifics and the Problem of Ends</a></li>
<li><a href="#org6b119d6">Assorted Raw Materials</a>
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<li><a href="#orgcdc658c">Weekly Themes &amp; Reports</a></li>
<li><a href="#org4c8a301">Dynamic Automatic Recall of Intentions</a></li>
<li><a href="#org4b0e134">Chatbot as UI</a></li>
<li><a href="#org2238822">Catastrophic Failure</a></li>
<li><a href="#org40ef0d7">The Matter of Mood</a></li>
<li><a href="#org189a6f3">The Practice of the Practice</a></li>
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<li><a href="#orgf5b2a16">Weekly Diary</a></li>
<li><a href="#org5dd3ada">Next Week</a></li>
<li><a href="#orgca54058">Closing Words</a></li>
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<h2 id="org94ac068">Week 3, 2023, &ldquo;Week of Systems&rdquo; report</h2>
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Last week I worked on the issue of &ldquo;life systems&rdquo;, by which I mean systems such as to-do lists, good habits such as exercise, schedules, plans, that sort of thing. At various times in the past I&rsquo;ve had various such systems, some working better than others. I used to make a list of the day&rsquo;s goals every morning and cross them off throughout the day. I also keep a file called <code>life.org</code> where I keep track of to-dos and leads to look into at a later point and such. Other things I would consider &ldquo;sytems&rdquo; include my daily meditation practice and various attempts at regular exercise I&rsquo;ve made in the past.
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The primary issue with life systems is therefore the overhead, the burden of maintenance, the stress. Rather than simplifying life, it is easy to <i>add</i> an administrative burden. In light of this, I&rsquo;ve isolated the following properties that I think a good system should have:
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The above is about as far as I got in terms of definitives. I did not start there; I started at neither the level of specifics nor of generalities, but in between, dealing with things such as &ldquo;managing stress&rdquo; and &ldquo;measurability&rdquo; and &ldquo;dimensions of personal development&rdquo;. At this level, however, it was far easier to write things down than to strike them through; easier to complicate than simplify, and I ended up with a basket of disjointed ideas, aims and cautions that I realized would be difficult to unify into a simple, coherent system. I was able to extract properties that the system should have, but not specifics of how the system should work.
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What follows is more-or-less a brain-dump of generated ideas that do not fit in the earlier sections.
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The astute reader will observe that this article itself, as a report on a weekly theme, itself constitutes a system. I have been playing with the idea of daily, weekly, monthly &amp;c themes for a while; weekly themes seem like a good sweet spot. This is the first weekly theme so far, and I&rsquo;m quite satisfied with it; having a theme gave me something to fall back on, something to work on when I didn&rsquo;t know what I should be doing, something to keep in the back of my mind. Writing this kind of report on it is also helpful; it&rsquo;s free-form enough that it&rsquo;s not burdensome, yet the fact that I intend to report on my thoughts helps keep me focused and organized.
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I like to keep to-do lists, both short-term and long-term, but long-term lists can be hard to manage. It&rsquo;s natural to add things to them faster than you can tick them off, it&rsquo;s normal to have more things you want to do than you actually end up doing. However, unless you are very aggressive about cutting things out, this tends to lead to a large to-do list over time, with many things of low priority on it. This makes it much more effortful to maintain and to extract activities from it, defeating the purpose of a to-do list, which for me is primarily to get all of these things out of my head and onto a document.
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In context of the previous section I&rsquo;ve been thinking about <i>how</i> to best send myself notifications. I&rsquo;m sure there&rsquo;s turnkey solutions for this, but the matter is personal and simple enough that I&rsquo;d rather roll my own thing than rely and work around something readymade. I considered phone notifications and email notifications, but I found what I think would be a nicer interface: a Discord bot.
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I&rsquo;ve spent a good chunk of time thinking about &ldquo;catastrophic failure&rdquo;. By catastrophic failure I mean the bad days, weeks and months. The times when you get nothing done. When you fail to wake up in the morning, brush your teeth, clean the house, exercise. When getting meaningful work done is not even on the table. I sketch here an extreme case; milder equivalents are possible.
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Mood matters. Inspiration matters. It is far easier, it takes far less energy, to do something we feel inspired to do, something that we are in the mood for, than something that&rsquo;s a pain in the butt. This is a natural part of the dance of life, the chaos of existence, but my models currently do not take it into account. I have taken into account variations in the <i>quantity</i> of our capabilities, through the trait of <i>smooth scaling</i>, but I have yet to deal with variations in the <i>quality</i> of our capabilities and desires.
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My meditation practice intersects strongly with this topic, yet I have not yet managed to marry them effectively. This is a very promising direction of thought that I fully intend to follow up on.
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This week was pretty tough, but I managed to mostly turn it around towards the end. I struggled with depression, loneliness and avolition. I dropped my daily meditation streak and indulged in too much cannabis. I spent a lot of time reading, mainly LessWrong. Having this weekly theme helped, since at least I was managing to make <i>some</i> progress on <i>some</i> things. In the end this report ended up being far longer than I had anticipated, certainly far longer than my notes for it, so I guess I made more progress in the end than I thought I did.
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I&rsquo;m gonna leave this topic here for the time being. I don&rsquo;t think I have what I need to continue the research, so I&rsquo;m just gonna wait. I&rsquo;ll try and follow up on some of the more actionable things, try and pick earlier systems of to-do lists and so on back up. I intent to follow up on the Discord-bot-as-planning-interface idea too.
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I feel a lot better now! Bringing myself to write for this blog was quite a hurdle, but overcoming it has energized me. I look forward to writing more. Bless you, dear reader. May you be happy, may you be at peace, may you be free from suffering. May you be kind to others, may you find meaning, may you be victorious.
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