Thanks for this, it’s a good unifying summary on systemization that I felt was valuable in addition to reading the Systemization chapter in the CFAR Handbook.
Another thing that falls into the ‘spend your money to conserve attention category’ is hiring a personal assistant. A fellow CFAR alum convinced me to try it out, and it’s definitely effective. I fell out of using my PA, but that is something I want to revisit, possibly when I have more money.
Automatically donate money.
This might be bad because giving Tuesday exists.
Is this out of fear of missing out on matching donations? If so, you could just set up your recurring donations to coincide with giving Tuesday. Like you say later in the article, find ways to make the decision to give only once (or as few times as possible).
Checklists
Neat, I had ‘search for what LW has to say about checklists’ on my Todo list, but I’d never made an explicit connection between them and systemization. I’ve added some checklists to my list of candidate systems, as well as systemizing updating them when they fail (of course, you could incorporate techniques like Murphyjitsu in writing your checklists too!)
Always hang your backpack on the command hook by your door.
Great idea, ordering a command hook now.
A powerful form of systemization is a systematic way to generate systems. How to construct these is beyond the scope of this post, but I just want to take a moment to shill Getting Things Done as an amazing meta-system.
It’s not obvious to me how GTD generates systems. Could you elaborate here?
The process I have in mind for GTD is: “notice some problem → capture → accumulate into projects → spawn a new system.” Not quite exactly a meta system, but is a system that applies to all aspects of life and can help you decide which new systems to spawn.
Thanks for this, it’s a good unifying summary on systemization that I felt was valuable in addition to reading the Systemization chapter in the CFAR Handbook.
Another thing that falls into the ‘spend your money to conserve attention category’ is hiring a personal assistant. A fellow CFAR alum convinced me to try it out, and it’s definitely effective. I fell out of using my PA, but that is something I want to revisit, possibly when I have more money.
Is this out of fear of missing out on matching donations? If so, you could just set up your recurring donations to coincide with giving Tuesday. Like you say later in the article, find ways to make the decision to give only once (or as few times as possible).
Neat, I had ‘search for what LW has to say about checklists’ on my Todo list, but I’d never made an explicit connection between them and systemization. I’ve added some checklists to my list of candidate systems, as well as systemizing updating them when they fail (of course, you could incorporate techniques like Murphyjitsu in writing your checklists too!)
Great idea, ordering a command hook now.
It’s not obvious to me how GTD generates systems. Could you elaborate here?
The process I have in mind for GTD is: “notice some problem → capture → accumulate into projects → spawn a new system.” Not quite exactly a meta system, but is a system that applies to all aspects of life and can help you decide which new systems to spawn.