Each plan realisation consists of several stages, which are similar in very different types of tasks:
1) Planning and data gathering about different tasks.
2) Preparation: buying instruments, collecting data for this task, register on Tinder etc.
3) Creating “first draft”. Writing the draft, building a prototype, trying to go to the first date.
4) Perfecting the product. Editing, testing with users, many dates.
5) “Selling it” and getting the output. E.g: getting article published and cited, startup becomes unicorn, or stable relation. Selling means that the output of the project becomes useful for some other projects, not necessary money or relation with other people.
6) Ending. It is the moment when you press stop button (or you become internally “peperclipy” by producing more and more thing which you do not need already). For example, you need to stop dating if you get wife. Stopping is not easy, as we tend to do the same things again and again. Stopping is especially difficult if the project fail and I have an option: try more or stop trying.
The most difficult here is the 5th step, selling – this is there plans tend to fail. Because on the first 4 levels I just spend resources and measure the progress by my internal metrics. At the end I finally compare it with the outside world, which could be just my bigger project.
Each plan realisation consists of several stages, which are similar in very different types of tasks:
1) Planning and data gathering about different tasks.
2) Preparation: buying instruments, collecting data for this task, register on Tinder etc.
3) Creating “first draft”. Writing the draft, building a prototype, trying to go to the first date.
4) Perfecting the product. Editing, testing with users, many dates.
5) “Selling it” and getting the output. E.g: getting article published and cited, startup becomes unicorn, or stable relation. Selling means that the output of the project becomes useful for some other projects, not necessary money or relation with other people.
6) Ending. It is the moment when you press stop button (or you become internally “peperclipy” by producing more and more thing which you do not need already). For example, you need to stop dating if you get wife. Stopping is not easy, as we tend to do the same things again and again. Stopping is especially difficult if the project fail and I have an option: try more or stop trying.
The most difficult here is the 5th step, selling – this is there plans tend to fail. Because on the first 4 levels I just spend resources and measure the progress by my internal metrics. At the end I finally compare it with the outside world, which could be just my bigger project.