Then, since I’ve done the upfront work of thinking through my own metacognitive practices, the assistant only has to track in the moment what situation I’m in, and basically follow a flowchart I might be too tunnel-visioned to handle myself.
In the past I have literally used flowcharts for this, including very simple “choose your own adventure” templates in roam.
The root node is just “something feels off, or something”, and then the template would guide me through a series of diagnostic questions, leading me to root nodes with checklists of very specific next actions depending on my state.
The fact that you have and are using flowcharts for that use is very validating to me, because I’ve been trying to create my own special flowcharts to guide me through diagnostic questions on a wide range of situations for about 6 months down.
Are you willing or able to share any of yours? Or at the very least what observations you’ve made about the ones you use the most or are most effective? (Obviously different courses for different horses/adjust the seat—everyone will have different flowcharts depending on their own meta-cognitive bottlenecks)
Mine has gone through many iterations. The most most expansive one is it lists different interrogatives “Should I...” “Why do I...” “How can/should I...” and suggests what I should be asking instead. For example “Why do I always...” should be replaced with “Oh yeah, name three times this happened?” which itself begs the problem statement questions—Why did you expect that to work (How how confident were you/how surprised when it didn’t)? How did it differ from your expectations? How did you react (and why did you react in that way)?
The most useful one is a cheatsheet of how to edit videos, with stuff like “Cut at least one frame after the dialogue/vocals comes in”, “if an edit feels sloppy, consider grouping B-roll by location rather than theme/motif”. It’s not really a flowchart in that there’s rarely branching paths like the question one.
Does this, at least structurally or implementation wise resemble your most effective flow-charts?
In the past I have literally used flowcharts for this, including very simple “choose your own adventure” templates in roam.
The root node is just “something feels off, or something”, and then the template would guide me through a series of diagnostic questions, leading me to root nodes with checklists of very specific next actions depending on my state.
The fact that you have and are using flowcharts for that use is very validating to me, because I’ve been trying to create my own special flowcharts to guide me through diagnostic questions on a wide range of situations for about 6 months down.
Are you willing or able to share any of yours? Or at the very least what observations you’ve made about the ones you use the most or are most effective? (Obviously different courses for different horses/adjust the seat—everyone will have different flowcharts depending on their own meta-cognitive bottlenecks)
Mine has gone through many iterations. The most most expansive one is it lists different interrogatives “Should I...” “Why do I...” “How can/should I...” and suggests what I should be asking instead. For example “Why do I always...” should be replaced with “Oh yeah, name three times this happened?” which itself begs the problem statement questions—Why did you expect that to work (How how confident were you/how surprised when it didn’t)? How did it differ from your expectations? How did you react (and why did you react in that way)?
The most useful one is a cheatsheet of how to edit videos, with stuff like “Cut at least one frame after the dialogue/vocals comes in”, “if an edit feels sloppy, consider grouping B-roll by location rather than theme/motif”. It’s not really a flowchart in that there’s rarely branching paths like the question one.
Does this, at least structurally or implementation wise resemble your most effective flow-charts?