Re:How to use last 5 minutes of a day
by sophacles on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @12:07PM
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Im sorry, but this seems like a terrible, short-sighted bit of lunacy. Yes, you should be noting things all day, but taking the time to review your notes as a cohesive whole seems to be the point. It will let you see bigger patterns. It will help you deduce what you could be doing tomorrow for your "#1 task".
Think of it like an optimization problem, small tweaks based on limited feedback will get you caught in a local maximum -- seriously, what you described is basically a genetic algorithm. When you step back and notice general trends, things that turn into inefficient tweak loops and so on, there is a lot of good that can come from it.
GO! GO! GO! is not a sane mentality, and has never helped me do much but get work done. This is useful, excepting of course those situations where the work itself isn't useful but I can't see that because I don't look back and analyze. Looking back on today and this week is a nice way to keep perspective, get some peace and have big picture understanding of what is going well and isn't.
Think of it like an optimization problem, small tweaks based on limited feedback will get you caught in a local maximum -- seriously, what you described is basically a genetic algorithm. When you step back and notice general trends, things that turn into inefficient tweak loops and so on, there is a lot of good that can come from it.
GO! GO! GO! is not a sane mentality, and has never helped me do much but get work done. This is useful, excepting of course those situations where the work itself isn't useful but I can't see that because I don't look back and analyze. Looking back on today and this week is a nice way to keep perspective, get some peace and have big picture understanding of what is going well and isn't.