- [<] Status Log - created:: 2022-11-01 - status-updated:: - current-status:: #articleseed - [S] Marketing - purpose:: [[Obsidian Roundup]] thoughts article My favorite cooking blogs don't really do recipes; they're all about fundamentals, teaching principles and skills, not giving recipes and backstory. So here are some skills I think are work actively cultivating, because as my philosophy professors always said (when defending the degree from people who thought it was useless...) most skills that lead to success are generalizable. I think in metaphor. It drives my husband nuts, because I'm not strictly accurate in my understanding of things like this. In some ways, it's an 80/20 approach to learning and helps me be more efficient -- I'm often not trying to _master_ things so much as _grasp_ them. In other ways, it puts me in a situation where I wind up knowing just enough to get myself in trouble. I've tried to develop an instinct for what tasks can be automated and what tasks can be delegated. Develop a sense of frustration for manual things -- but not to full xkcd levels. - [ ] Tell the Cass story about how apparently this is half the battle. Metacognition is critically important, too. I always ask "why am I doing this" and "what are my frustrations?" and take the time to think about these things; it means I'm bad at forming habits like daily notes... but I mostly don't view that as a downside ;) Cultivate boredom. Let your mind chew on a problem to keep itself busy; it doesn't have to be the commute or the shower. People sometimes describe me as being "very online" but I try to be deliberate about it; I use curated feeds, twitter lists, carefully chosen communities, etc. And I have lots of outside time, and spend a lot of time with a blank paper and pen, playing jigsaw puzzles instead of phone games. I set up changes for serendipity -- I try no to just "kill time." %% cross-reference with the RSS article & konik method for taking notes article %%