wat watashi (Ischikauia steenackeri) (freshwater fish of the carp family)

from /villagepump/2022/03/08

• When I’m busy with a lot of tasks, I’m inspired by something I happen to see and I say, “Oh, I should probably do that! and add a task human bug.
  • (present progressive tense)
  • Think calmly! You don’t have to do that now!
  • Go back to basics and write it down first
    • For this purpose.Inbox (GTD)を使い始めた
      • Put it in Inbox and forget about it on the spot.
      • We’re operating pretty well there.
  • Newly conceived tasks tend to pile up on top of the stack when left to the brain
    • But the truth is that unless there is a “clear reason why it should be prioritized over the previously recognized task”, it should be added to the end of the queue.
• This “wata wata” is a little different from impatience.
  • Impatience is a negative feeling, a “Oh no, this is bad, this is bad,
  • Wata wata is positively high-strung and manic?
  • The point is the same: they are both racing (of an engine) out of gear.
    • ref Parable of the Gears
    • sense of anxiety is,
    • First of all, the gears don’t mesh.
    • So there is no output.
    • They begin to get impatient when they realize that “the expected output is not being produced.”
    • You get impatient and rev the engine faster, but the gears aren’t meshing, so you don’t get any output, and you get impatient again.
    • Empty engine overheats, with no results, of course.
      • The hell of slacking off in the face of frustration.
    • wat watashi (Ischikauia steenackeri) (freshwater fish of the carp family) is,
      • Detailed tasks that can be done quickly and easily are all over the place.
      • crunchy As I’m doing it, the tension rises and the engine starts revving at high speed.
    • Suddenly bang! and the gears or something breaks and you lose control of your speed.
      • The steering wheel doesn’t work either, and the car runs in strange directions (= tasks are not properly selected and prioritized).
        • ref They’re fighting over the wheel of the car.
    • The engine starts idling even faster because the load is removed.
• SNS notifications and Scrapbox Streams exacerbate the latter situation because they generate a large number of “small tasks that can be done quickly” that say, “Oh, I should comment on this.
  • It’s the one that happens every time I open the well!
    • This was the reason time was melting away every day~.
  • The Pathology of Well-Being Dependency
• Important tasks with deadlines, easily triggered when waiting for others to take action
  • I’d be curious to see if they’ve had any action, so I’d go to the notifications.
  • Okay.
    • So what is it about … that makes you open your well at all hours of the day to worry about it?
• cope
  • No caffeine today.
    • ？
      • Does it mean to force them to sleep with drowsiness?
        • (I assumed that caffeine was used to numb drowsiness so that they could work for longer periods of time.)
      • It has nothing to do with sleepiness.
        • Caffeine is a drug that produces excitatory effects by disabling the inhibitory neurotransmitter adenosine
          • 
        • I can’t show you the exact source, but I wrote this with the feeling that it’s not right to break the brakes when the car is spinning because the brakes aren’t applied.
  • Tasks are written down
    • pomodoro do (do not go to notifications during pomodoro, use as a barrier)

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