The Scott Adams quote brought back two thoughts I had during the period around the Worldwide Day of Goalsetting:
1. The importance of the environment - your process shows really well how to start caring about your digital environment (an important part of "the system")
2. We achieve identities, not goals. You cannot achieve any meaningful goal without changing who you are. That's why we should start by defining the person who can achieve what we want not the goal per se.
I completely agree - environment is a key part. On that I really like an equation from Raval or Paul Graham - Output = Skills x Environment. It’s really important to take care of environment - both digital and physical (don’t forget about that!).
Regarding Identity, again, I definitely agree - you can achieve goals but without the system it will be temporary success, the same goes for the systems - without change of identity your system won’t be sustainable. And believe me I tried many systems that failed as there was no change of identity, e.g., training any sport regularly 🫠
Great stuff :) With time the physical aspect of our body will require more attention in such summaries, i tend to look at my past week from that angle - "Did i move enough? Will i be able to move around freely when i'm 70? :)"
Thanks for the insights into your system! I'd be interested to hear more about the triage and refactoring system. What's the structure of your "Most important notes"? It's a challenge for me, a lot of stuff stays in my daily notes for now, forever forgotten - although with LLMs I can retrieve the most important themes.
Thanks Ola! To explain that in more detail I’d need to make an introduction to my Obsidian (which I’ll do the next week!) But for now, in general, the ideal situation is having nothing in „The most important notes” as it means that every note found a place in the core part of my knowledge base.
For KB I mostly use simplified Zettelkasten system where I have index of the high level categories eg. Product Management and here is the subindex and so on to the point of the specific knowledge. During refactoring I simply copy paste the notes to the relevant note or index. And to be honest, 90% of notes/subindices are mess of copy pasted stuff which I clean only when I need to focus on that specific area or sometimes even the mess is enough as I only need to recall the concept and rest of details are in my physical brain.
I hope it sheds a bit of light how it works but I’ll definitely write on that in the next posts!
This is an incredible system! I especially love the flexibility and how it adapts over time, starting small and growing with you.
One thing I track weekly is my family - my parents and brother. While it’s not daily, it’s always on my agenda to check in on them, meet up, or at least have a call. We have built problem-solving-oriented relationships, where we openly share current challenges, discuss potential solutions, and hold each other accountable for taking action. This ensures we stay connected while helping each other grow.
Thanks for sharing your system! It’s inspiring to see how others approach self-organization!
Your approach to check-ins with family sounds like an extended „relationship check” - I really like that! In my case, I try to approach that by scheduled weekly or biweekly calls (you know that!) For me it reduces a friction of scheduling a call and increases a friction to skip the contact. Same goal but different tactic :D
The Scott Adams quote brought back two thoughts I had during the period around the Worldwide Day of Goalsetting:
1. The importance of the environment - your process shows really well how to start caring about your digital environment (an important part of "the system")
2. We achieve identities, not goals. You cannot achieve any meaningful goal without changing who you are. That's why we should start by defining the person who can achieve what we want not the goal per se.
You raised great points Luke!
I completely agree - environment is a key part. On that I really like an equation from Raval or Paul Graham - Output = Skills x Environment. It’s really important to take care of environment - both digital and physical (don’t forget about that!).
Regarding Identity, again, I definitely agree - you can achieve goals but without the system it will be temporary success, the same goes for the systems - without change of identity your system won’t be sustainable. And believe me I tried many systems that failed as there was no change of identity, e.g., training any sport regularly 🫠
Great stuff :) With time the physical aspect of our body will require more attention in such summaries, i tend to look at my past week from that angle - "Did i move enough? Will i be able to move around freely when i'm 70? :)"
Damn, that’s a great idea. Initially I thought about „Physical health” point as an indicator for that but I treated that too loosely.
Few days ago I tried to do push-ups and it turned out the results are very bad. Maybe it should be my indicator 🤔
Thanks for the insights into your system! I'd be interested to hear more about the triage and refactoring system. What's the structure of your "Most important notes"? It's a challenge for me, a lot of stuff stays in my daily notes for now, forever forgotten - although with LLMs I can retrieve the most important themes.
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Thanks Ola! To explain that in more detail I’d need to make an introduction to my Obsidian (which I’ll do the next week!) But for now, in general, the ideal situation is having nothing in „The most important notes” as it means that every note found a place in the core part of my knowledge base.
For KB I mostly use simplified Zettelkasten system where I have index of the high level categories eg. Product Management and here is the subindex and so on to the point of the specific knowledge. During refactoring I simply copy paste the notes to the relevant note or index. And to be honest, 90% of notes/subindices are mess of copy pasted stuff which I clean only when I need to focus on that specific area or sometimes even the mess is enough as I only need to recall the concept and rest of details are in my physical brain.
I hope it sheds a bit of light how it works but I’ll definitely write on that in the next posts!
Thank you, yes that gives me an idea :) I'm looking forward to your posts in the future!
This is an incredible system! I especially love the flexibility and how it adapts over time, starting small and growing with you.
One thing I track weekly is my family - my parents and brother. While it’s not daily, it’s always on my agenda to check in on them, meet up, or at least have a call. We have built problem-solving-oriented relationships, where we openly share current challenges, discuss potential solutions, and hold each other accountable for taking action. This ensures we stay connected while helping each other grow.
Thanks for sharing your system! It’s inspiring to see how others approach self-organization!
Thanks for sharing!
Your approach to check-ins with family sounds like an extended „relationship check” - I really like that! In my case, I try to approach that by scheduled weekly or biweekly calls (you know that!) For me it reduces a friction of scheduling a call and increases a friction to skip the contact. Same goal but different tactic :D