- In The Intellectual Production of Engineers, p. 165 (5.2.6.3) Making a front cover when there is an enormous amount of warps, the process of writing
There was a chapter called “Meditation” at this stage, but it didn’t connect well with the other chapters, so it was deleted. The event is presented as having occurred. I was looking at the repository and saw that the text removed from the proposed heading was committed on 2017-04-10, so I’m posting it here for fun.
This content itself would be good to include in the “How this book was made” chapter.Intellectual Production of Engineers_Additions
- Initially, I thought it would be a good idea to include actual data on the process of the book’s creation itself, such as an appendix chapter.
- The editor’s decision not to include it was appropriate, since the book is still relatively thick in its current state after the removal.
- An expanded edition, maybe it would be better to publish it electronically instead of in a paper book.
Slow down the gears.]” in “meditation” is introduced in “Matching against dictionaries” on p. 204.
The original was in Markdown, but I thought it would be better to use bullet points when reprinting it in Scrapbox, so I replaced # with ■.
2017-04-10 Chapter 7: I can’t keep going.
- Is continuity an end or a means? A means to an end?
- The “Snacking and Studying Method.”
- What is needed for continuity
- ■■ How to get hooked
- ■■ Trigger: Need a trigger
- ■■ Rewards: Rewards are required.
- ■■ INVESTMENT: Investment required
- ■■ Appropriate difficulty adjustment
- ■■ Flow Theory: Between Boredom and Anxiety
- ■■ How to get hooked
Chapter 8: Uncluttered
- What is “tidying up”?
- Be able to see where it is located.
- ■■ Classification
- Humans cannot create perfect classifications from the start.
- ■■ The Bat Problem
- ■■ One Pocket Principle
- Strategy to give up classification and put it in one place
- Difference between objects and information
- ■■ Location Limitations = Index
- By allowing the database index to efficiently determine “not here”.
- Mechanisms to reduce time spent finding “where is it?”
- The index works in the same way in organizing physical objects.
- All the receipts are in this box.”
- The requirement for effectiveness is to be sure that it is not elsewhere.
- ■■ Bottom-up
- How to create an index, build from the bottom up
- ■■ Time frame
- The time axis is a handy index.
- ■■ Search
- Things are difficult to search. This is an approach to make it easier to search.
- Masui method of super-organization, potato search
- By allowing the database index to efficiently determine “not here”.
- ■■ Location Limitations = Index
- Chaos and Creativity
- Does chaos increase creativity?
- With “chaos” of 100 sticky notes spread out on a desk,
- The “chaos” of not being able to find the necessary tools is different.
- Jiro Kawakita of “Let Chaos Speak.”
Chapter 9: Impatience.
- Gap between ideal and reality
- Aiming for an ideal beyond what can be done (reality) creates frustration.
- Impatience is the engine of ambition, but it must be controlled to the extent that it does not overheat and burn itself out.
- ■■ The Problem of Perfectionism
- Suffer from striving for perfection from the start.
- ■■ Incremental
- Repeated improvement and gradual betterment.
- ■■ Default zero
- If we don’t do it, it’s zero, so let’s try everything.
- Failure is also an opportunity to learn
- Physicality
- (Maybe physicality is not the right word, I can’t think of a replacement right now.)
- It is strange to ignore the “body” as irrelevant when discussing the “spirit” of motivation and agitation.
- The human spirit is affected by the body more than he or she realizes.
- With regard to agitation in particular, caffeine intake is known to have an effect.
- ■■ Watch out for caffeine
- Caffeine causes agitation.
- Theanine in green tea eases agitation.
- Introduction to an experiment in which both caffeine and theanine are ingested.
- Temperature, moisture, oxygen, and blood glucose
- ■■ Headache
- ■■ Sensory deprivation
- ■■ Isolation tanks
- ■■ Eye mask
- ■■ Earplugs and muffled headphones
- Meditation
- ■■ Slow down the gears.
- ■■ Override your thoughts
- ■■ Stop thinking
- ■■ Interrupt the movement of the mind
Chapter 11: Fallen Earnings
- (This chapter may be omitted.)
Chapter 12: How this book was made
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