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2024-10-31 | ๐Ÿชœ Linear ๐Ÿก Living ๐Ÿ›ฃ๏ธ

๐Ÿค” More thoughts on Linear Processes

๐Ÿก Household Chores

๐Ÿ˜ฉ I donโ€™t love doing dishes.
๐Ÿ˜Š But we have a nice process that makes it easy to do a little at a time.
๐Ÿงบ Same with laundry.
๐Ÿค” Something about this reminds me of a Kanban planning scheme I designed for work a while back.

๐Ÿšฆ Kanban

๐Ÿค” Actually, I think these are all examples of Kanban systems.
๐Ÿšฆ In Kanban, the flow of work is not necessarily represented by paper cards or digital representations of sticky notes.
๐Ÿงบ A basket that moves laundry from the bedroom to the laundry room is a form of Kanban.
โžก๏ธ Maybe these are all Linear Processes.

๐ŸŒ€ Non-linear processes

๐Ÿค” I think I tend to think of home organization as a non-linear process.
๐Ÿ  Itโ€™s big, complex, and overwhelming.
๐Ÿ‘ท To make progress, I may need to hire experts and spend days organizing and engineering systems to maintain organization.
๐ŸŒช๏ธ A flurry of intense activity is required in a short period of time.
โš ๏ธ Otherwise we may wind up with half the house inside out and unusable, making things worse.

โš™๏ธ System Design

๐Ÿค” But maybe it doesnโ€™t have to be that way.
๐Ÿ’ก Maybe we can design an organization process that is nice in the same way that the dishes ๐Ÿฝ๏ธ, laundry ๐Ÿงบ, and Kanban planning ๐Ÿšฆ are nice.
๐Ÿชœ A process where incremental progress can happen a little at a time.
๐Ÿค Where a little work yields a little improvement.
๐Ÿ˜Œ This would make the effort a lot less overwhelming.
๐Ÿ‘ A lot easier.
โœ… Progress could be made.

โžก๏ธ Linear Organization

๐Ÿค” What would this linear home organization process look like?
๐Ÿ’ญ Iโ€™m imagining a system that looks like combination of Kanban planning ๐Ÿšฆ and laundry ๐Ÿงบ.
๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ‘จ My wife and I can collect ideas on a Kanban board.
โœ๏ธ A little at a time, we can expand and define these ideas, adding critical details about goals, outcomes, and the steps necessary to move ideas to reality.
โœ… When an idea is well fleshed out and we agree it should be done, we can start working one little step at a time.
โžก๏ธ The execution plan should be linear to be well behaved.
โš ๏ธ Each step should leave the house in a state of minimal disruption.
๐Ÿ‘š We donโ€™t want a closet organization project paused in a way that prevents us from getting dressed on a daily basis.

๐Ÿค” Much Ado about Planning?

๐Ÿง˜ I pause and reflect.
๐Ÿคฏ This feels almost revolutionary.
๐Ÿคฉ Exciting.
โœจ Novel.
๐Ÿ˜ฒ Wow.
โžก๏ธ A way convert a big, overwhelming, potentially disruptive venture into a series of small, easy, safe steps to achieve a goal.
๐Ÿ“ Designing linear processes!
๐Ÿคฏ Wow. So sophisticated. The welding of abstract mathematics to tame menacing real life projects.
โ“ Or is this just planning?
๐Ÿ“ Write down a goal. ์ชผ Split a big project into little tasks. โœ… Complete work a bit at a time.
๐Ÿ”ฎ Peer into the future. ๐ŸŽญ Simulate activities. ๐Ÿ”Ž Look for problems in the simulation. โœ๏ธ Write down the steps.
๐Ÿค” Do people do this all the time?
๐Ÿง Am I discovering something obvious?
๐Ÿคท I canโ€™t tell. ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Maybe Iโ€™ll ask around.
๐Ÿ‘ I guess it doesnโ€™t matter much for me.
โœ… Whether planning or designing linear processes is obvious to the rest of the world or not, itโ€™s useful to me.

โœ๏ธ Blogging

๐Ÿง  I think this is also a linear process.

  1. ๐Ÿ’ก I get an idea
  2. ๐Ÿ“ฑ I open my phone
  3. โœ๏ธ I write a few words
  4. ๐Ÿš€ I publish my notes
  5. ๐Ÿ”„ I revisit an idea
  6. โœ๏ธ I revise prior writing
  7. ๐Ÿ“ข I publish again

๐Ÿ“ˆ I can write and publish a little at a time and my website grows on its own.
๐Ÿ—“๏ธ I did a bit of planning when I started this.
โณ And Iโ€™ve done bits more over time.
๐Ÿงฑ A little more structure here, โœ๏ธ a little more writing there.
๐ŸŒฑ Continuous, gradual, incremental improvement.
๐Ÿ˜Ž Pretty cool, I think.

๐Ÿงช A Test

โณ Letโ€™s see how easily I can find my notes on setting up this blogging system to drop a link.
๐Ÿ“ My blogs posts are currently untitled (minus the date), which makes the Reflections index of limited use.
๐Ÿ”Ž But I can search for key terms, like โ€œobsidian publishโ€ and see what comes back.
๐ŸŽ‰ Boom second of 2 results: 2024-04-21. โœ… Easy.
๐Ÿฅณ Thank you, me from 6 months ago! ๐Ÿš€ Look what weโ€™ve done! ๐Ÿ˜Š

๐Ÿ‘ Okay. Enough for now. ๐ŸŒ… Back to my morning routineโ€ฆ

๐ŸŒ Static Apis