I opened up Notion the other day and saw it had a new AI feature to it. So I typed in the name of a story I was going to write to see what it would come up with. It wasn’t half-bad, but it’s not what I was thinking about. It was actually way off and completely generic. I tried it again with a few more story titles and what came out was very generic…
I never put “Focus Time” into my calendar but it’s now such a thing that we see it all the time in everyone’s calendar. I’ve done this a few times myself just to get work done – it feels wrong to schedule something that I used to feel was so completely spontaneous and now the work that I love has to be scheduled to complete. I’m trying to figure out how to reverse the trend…
To do all the work you need to do, you need to have a connected environment to a network that not only lets you work on that particular task, but it opens a dizzying array of other things you can be doing. Watching YouTube while you work. Incoming messages coming at you. Seeing twitter updates scroll in. Seeing newsfeeds update. Now more than ever it is a task in itself to get yourself to focus…
Your last project is done. It’s over. It’s complete. It’s left the building. And now, everything you have been putting off has come flooding back to you. You can think now, it’s no longer consuming you and it’s time to finish everything else you put on hold.
Yesterday was winter and today is spring. So what’s the difference? Nothing, today could still be winter, and keep going for another 4 days until it was spring. It’s a date that seemed like a good idea at the time so we stick with it. So if you’re waiting for a date to start making changes, just know, they all don’t make sense, so what you’re actually waiting for is a manufactured date that has…