I’ve now tried this out, in a not-too-structured way. (I’ve tried two assistants, not 100% of the time for weeks on end, but for a couple individual days of work). It basically seems to be working so far and I’m hoping to try for longer periods soon. (It’s a bit tricky because I work on the LW team which has existing structure to work around)
I’m trying this out with an aim for “thinking-assistant” more than “personal assistant / productivity hack”. I’m hiring people who take notes about what I’m doing, see where I seem to get stuck, talk through problems, and hopefully help improve the quality of my cognition as well as just make me work harder.
Mostly so far it’s having the effect of keeping me in “strategic” mode all the time. I’m trying to have part of their job be to track my big picture and notice when I’m getting tunnel vision.
I don’t know how this’ll hold up over weeks. It also sure is fairly expensive.
I’ve now tried this out, in a not-too-structured way. (I’ve tried two assistants, not 100% of the time for weeks on end, but for a couple individual days of work). It basically seems to be working so far and I’m hoping to try for longer periods soon. (It’s a bit tricky because I work on the LW team which has existing structure to work around)
I’m trying this out with an aim for “thinking-assistant” more than “personal assistant / productivity hack”. I’m hiring people who take notes about what I’m doing, see where I seem to get stuck, talk through problems, and hopefully help improve the quality of my cognition as well as just make me work harder.
Mostly so far it’s having the effect of keeping me in “strategic” mode all the time. I’m trying to have part of their job be to track my big picture and notice when I’m getting tunnel vision.
I don’t know how this’ll hold up over weeks. It also sure is fairly expensive.