Very nice! I wish I were a bit more able to stockpile either cash or attention. I'm a bit too impulsive for either. I do make an attempt at logging "ideas worth pursuing". I even prioritize them to some extent. But my process has always depended on "more than one motivation" to pursue any given subject. I.e. I don't invest deeply in anything until it's reinforced by lots of nudges/patterns. Hence my apophenia, which turns out to be motivated reasoning.
On 05/11/2016 11:08 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
If anything I'm more breadth oriented than I used to be. It's more a like a cash flow thing. I know I'll have to jettison a lot of attention and short/medium term memory to do depth, and so I try to find opportunities to schedule the attention in batch. As a young person, I'd run out of cash, so to speak, and be in a world of hurt. Now I collect a nice pile of cash, figuratively and literally, before jumping in. The ongoing negotiation with the people around me gets replaced with what amounts to a monetary transaction to keep them at a bay for a while. Knuth (or some favorite novelist, etc.), in contrast, had such a giant pile of (intellectual) cash he could keep people at bay, period. The "reflexes" are no worse, from age, and maybe better, but I'm not going to work 30 hours straight anymore because that's just stupid.
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