I find that the greatest challenge in starting to employ something like this, is learning to recognize the things that count as decisions to be recorded. To the extent that they are not too private, could you share more examples of the kinds of decisions that you have used this on?
Here are some examples, though as I said, I think my own definition of a decision was too strict:
I went to that forecasting day that included Carl Shulman, Kajta, etc.
I didn’t do [multi week research project with some people].
I rejoined CFAR’s colloquium.
I decided to go to the mainline workshop in late February.
I bought a macbook air with a 512 GB hard drive and 18 GB of RAM. I returned it for a macbook pro with a 512 GB hard drive and 18 GB of RAM. This was $100 more expensive, but with a faster processor. For that reason I’m typing this on my old (often crashing) machine.
I opted not to attend the Bay NVC convergence facilitation training.
I returned my macbook pro to get a macbook air again, because of the better battery life.
I got on to Prague time the long way, by staying up late, sleeping all day, and then taking an evening plane, having a long travel day, then crashing, when I got to Europe.
I decided to come back from Europe early so that I could meet with Brienne and Duncan about instructor training, instead of hanging with FHI.
I didn’t join the conversation about [topic] between [people].
I downloaded [that sketchy file].
I told [employer] that I could do about 10 to 12 hours of [category] work in October.
I bought access to AWC’s demonstrations of Focusing.
I stayed two extra days in Prague and then had a flight that left at 9:00 AM from Prague to Copenhagen, and then a connecting flight from Copenhagen to Oakland. Getting up really early to go to the airport didn’t suit me much since I had been waking up around 10:00. So I bought an $85 ticket to Copenhagen a day early, and stayed in the cheapest Hostel I could find.
I think at least one trigger for flagging decisions might be something like “I’m about to ‘pull the trigger’ on something.” I have some amount of indecision, or conflictedness, and then I settle into one state or another.
I find that the greatest challenge in starting to employ something like this, is learning to recognize the things that count as decisions to be recorded. To the extent that they are not too private, could you share more examples of the kinds of decisions that you have used this on?
Here are some examples, though as I said, I think my own definition of a decision was too strict:
I went to that forecasting day that included Carl Shulman, Kajta, etc.
I didn’t do [multi week research project with some people].
I rejoined CFAR’s colloquium.
I decided to go to the mainline workshop in late February.
I bought a macbook air with a 512 GB hard drive and 18 GB of RAM. I returned it for a macbook pro with a 512 GB hard drive and 18 GB of RAM. This was $100 more expensive, but with a faster processor. For that reason I’m typing this on my old (often crashing) machine.
I opted not to attend the Bay NVC convergence facilitation training.
I returned my macbook pro to get a macbook air again, because of the better battery life.
I got on to Prague time the long way, by staying up late, sleeping all day, and then taking an evening plane, having a long travel day, then crashing, when I got to Europe.
I decided to come back from Europe early so that I could meet with Brienne and Duncan about instructor training, instead of hanging with FHI.
I didn’t join the conversation about [topic] between [people].
I downloaded [that sketchy file].
I told [employer] that I could do about 10 to 12 hours of [category] work in October.
I bought access to AWC’s demonstrations of Focusing.
I stayed two extra days in Prague and then had a flight that left at 9:00 AM from Prague to Copenhagen, and then a connecting flight from Copenhagen to Oakland. Getting up really early to go to the airport didn’t suit me much since I had been waking up around 10:00. So I bought an $85 ticket to Copenhagen a day early, and stayed in the cheapest Hostel I could find.
I think at least one trigger for flagging decisions might be something like “I’m about to ‘pull the trigger’ on something.” I have some amount of indecision, or conflictedness, and then I settle into one state or another.
For some reason seeing all this concreteness made me more excited/likely to try this technique.
Cool!