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Episode: 566
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Title: HPR0566: Shotgun
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0566/hpr0566.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 23:12:02
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Hello, this is Lost in Bruns. Just a quick note here. In a previous episode of HPR,
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I talked about podcasts and pod fading. But in the midst of it, I mentioned a philosophy
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I hold called AIC, which stands for As in Chair. Basically, it's a call for a better work
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ethic. As applied to those hobbies and advocations, we all have too many of, for the time we tend
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to have available. Everyone has interests, and many of us have something of a scatter shot
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brain, and the attention span of, well, someone considerably younger. In fact, if there is
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a fountain of youth out there, I suspect it has something to do with extending our childish
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foibles and staving off wisdom for as long as we can. Certainly, childishness is as close
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as I get these days. Be that as it may. AIC basically is an agreement with myself that
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I will, somehow, keep my nose to the grindstone, regardless of the outside circumstances. That's
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only within reason I live in the world after all. But I believe that more people want to
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pursue their interests and dreams than those who ever actually do, or that more people
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would like to do more of the things they enjoy. Now, it's not to be confused with a productivity
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system since AIC states nothing about the methods and techniques one might need to employ
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in order to achieve the desired state of productivity. For that, I've decided to try a little
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experiment. I've come up with a schedule for myself that breaks down all my possible
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free time into 30 minute intervals, and I've filled all those time slots with projects
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I have either started and not gotten very far with, or ones I intend to start in the near
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future. The level of micromanaging involved here is deliberately extreme and takes into
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account absolutely no outside interruptions. Obviously, this is an absurd plan, the failed
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outcome of which is clear from the start, right? Well, probably, but hear me out. Remember,
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this is not a work schedule as in a career, a business, or some kind of paid employment.
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Now, this schedule covers only my many projects and interests, all of which I intend to pursue,
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and few of which I actually do because of time, attention, or energy constraints. So,
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how could hyper scheduling my free time actually help this situation? Well, because it's
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not really a schedule, but more like a guide. What I've done here is put each and every
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task or project down the schedule multiple times throughout the week, always at staggered
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or different times from day to day. I am under no personal obligation to follow the schedule
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at all, which frees me up to handle outside interruptions like family time or anything of
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the like that is not explicitly on the schedule already. Once my time is my own again, I consult
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the schedule and the clock and do whatever it is that's penciled in for that time. Since
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the interruptions and distractions I have are unpredictable and chronic, the shotgun effect
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of this type of scheduling might, might ensure more or less that I will have worked within
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and upon my myriad projects and interests not every day, but at least once or twice a week.
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Now that may not sound like much, but it beats the situation I have now hands down. There are
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those jobs that I want to do, maybe even need to attack and dedicate myself to, but which
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somehow get left by the wayside. It happens to us all to one extent or other, but I'm very
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accomplished at it. Mysteriously, the half-starts of my life may well outnumber all the attempts
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put together. Okay, that's not very good math, but it's a perception I'm talking about.
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In a way, this is more about alleviating stress and minor guilt, rather than actually
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accomplishing anything concrete. That'll just be a side benefit. If I can increase the
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amount of work I'm doing overall, then I've accomplished my goal. I want to be able to
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look back on my week and actually be able to tally up something. Maybe not much, but
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something. There are weeks that flash by so fast I have a problem remembering if I was
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even a part of them. That kind of crap has to end. Now, there ought to be an easy way
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to keep track of this part of it, too, to see which jobs are getting attention and which
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are slipping through the cracks. Maybe some sort of time-tracking software? Well, it wouldn't
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be about the final goals of the various projects anyway, or at least not at first. Maybe later,
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when I start to see some overall progress, but if there was a way to have it all at once,
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I certainly would make use of it. Then again, if I was that accomplished, I wouldn't need
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this to begin with. When this is done in over with, if there could be one thing I gained
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from it, that would be to find out not so much if this system works, or even if something
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else might in its place, but rather to learn if an active approach to the issue can be
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a solace of its own. That may seem like a lot to ask from a half-baked idea, but why
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not? This could be just the thing I'm looking for, or it could be a waste of time. From this
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side of the river, I suspect it will have some merit, but not be a panacea. A collection
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of things with merit, though, overlapping and complementing each other might well do
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what no single half-baked idea ever could. And this might be a piece of that. I'll know
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in a few weeks. I'll be flogging about this as I go. That sounds vaguely perverted, but
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a flog is just a blog hosted on a gopher server, flog, ph, l, o, g. Anyway, if you have an interest
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in productivity schemes, you may want to check it out from time to time over the next
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month or so. That's gopher, colon slash slash gopher.info-underground.net slash one, the
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number one slash lost and bronx slash lost and blog slash. I'll have a link in the show notes
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for your convenience, because I'm that kind of guy, a giver. You can also email me at
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lostandbronxatgmail.com. That's L-O-S-T-N-B-R-O-N-X at Gmail. And on Identica, I'm, you guessed it,
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lost and bronx. Talk to you soon, because that's on the schedule, too. Take care.
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