It felt productive. My day job (running a policy nonprofit) involves a lot of vibes/reacting to Current Thing and not a great deal of rigorously solving hard problems, and the exercise usefully… crystallized? a vague, vibes-based framework that I follow when I do strategy planning—set timers, generate plans, set probabilities, check surprise, go meta, iterate, etc. It’s nice to have that operationalized!
It felt productive. My day job (running a policy nonprofit) involves a lot of vibes/reacting to Current Thing and not a great deal of rigorously solving hard problems, and the exercise usefully… crystallized? a vague, vibes-based framework that I follow when I do strategy planning—set timers, generate plans, set probabilities, check surprise, go meta, iterate, etc. It’s nice to have that operationalized!