Re:Ask HN: How much do you contemplate per week?
by 100011_100001 on Friday May 21, 2021 @01:37PM
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My solution to that aspect of time wasting is to write it down. I don't think I am unique in this aspect but sometimes my contemplations are circular, the deeper I go the more I have to rehash my thoughts, which wastes time.
I find it writing it down eliminates that problem significantly. Depending on the thought I follow two different approaches.
1. Write down what comes in mind, each thought a separate point. If it's causal, like A -> B -> C, I will re-arrange my typed up thoughts to match the pattern. So it works like a sorting queue for thoughts.
2. Mindmap. Usually when I am trying to think of all the likely scenarios, which ends up having multiple causal trees, and sometimes thinking about a 3rd dependency will make me think of a similar dependency on a different tree...that's when a lot of the cyclical thinking happens, so writing it down like a mindmap is like a weird breadth first approach.
I find it writing it down eliminates that problem significantly. Depending on the thought I follow two different approaches.
1. Write down what comes in mind, each thought a separate point. If it's causal, like A -> B -> C, I will re-arrange my typed up thoughts to match the pattern. So it works like a sorting queue for thoughts.
2. Mindmap. Usually when I am trying to think of all the likely scenarios, which ends up having multiple causal trees, and sometimes thinking about a 3rd dependency will make me think of a similar dependency on a different tree...that's when a lot of the cyclical thinking happens, so writing it down like a mindmap is like a weird breadth first approach.