"Applied Rationality Training Regime" #14: Traffic Jams

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January 14 brings us to Training Regime Day 14: Traffic Jams with the notion that if the parts of your mind are focusing on too many different things that you'd really like to achieve, then that in itself will tend to block productive goal-oriented activity, so what you need is a Brain Dump in which you write down everything you need to do, then "clarify" by putting little things on a ToDo list to simply get done, medium-sized things get plans and Murphyjitsu, the biggest things may get pruned, or simply cut down and legitimately grieved over. Some aspirations, some story-lines, just aren't plausible and you may need to give them up in order to go on with your life, but it doesn't help to try to deny that it makes some of your selves really sad. The Litany of Tarski applies, especially because it's Tarski's birthday.

My brain dump looks an awful lot like my bugs list; in fact I'm viewing this exercise as being mainly a way to deal with my bugs list. Okay, that's interesting, and the part about grieving as part of giving up an unreachable goal is extremely interesting even if I'm not doing that today. I have tried just a little bit of Murphyjitsu on subplans for a bigger plan, and done a couple of small things. Good enough for today.