“Get everyone who could use one a Thinking Assistant” still feels like one of the higher order interventions available. It at the very least raises the floor of my productivity (by being accountable to someone for basically working at all).
I have found it fairly hard to hire for the role, and I think the main problem is still “reliability”, which IMO is more important than having any particular skills.
I’ve had a Thinking Assistant for the past year. One benefit I positively updated on is “it makes it easy to gain new habits.” Instead of every new habit being a whole bunch of willpower, it’s something I can offboard to the thinking assistant who just reminds me of it.
This is easiest for “routine” habits (i.e. habits you execute at a particular time of day, such as taking some new medical supplements). It’s still somewhat tricky for “reflex” habits (habits you need to do in response to some situations), because it’s harder for an assistant to notice when it’s time to apply a given habit. But, I’ve gotten at least some incremental improvements on habits like “notice I’m confused” or “notice it’s time to break out the debugging checklist.”
“Get everyone who could use one a Thinking Assistant” still feels like one of the higher order interventions available. It at the very least raises the floor of my productivity (by being accountable to someone for basically working at all).
I have found it fairly hard to hire for the role, and I think the main problem is still “reliability”, which IMO is more important than having any particular skills.
I’ve had a Thinking Assistant for the past year. One benefit I positively updated on is “it makes it easy to gain new habits.” Instead of every new habit being a whole bunch of willpower, it’s something I can offboard to the thinking assistant who just reminds me of it.
This is easiest for “routine” habits (i.e. habits you execute at a particular time of day, such as taking some new medical supplements). It’s still somewhat tricky for “reflex” habits (habits you need to do in response to some situations), because it’s harder for an assistant to notice when it’s time to apply a given habit. But, I’ve gotten at least some incremental improvements on habits like “notice I’m confused” or “notice it’s time to break out the debugging checklist.”