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project management is something that *isn't* super intuitive, because it's something that involves things that are bigger than what you might naturally do in a given day. The variance is massive. Some people dick around their whole lives, others build cathedrals and rocket ships
you might say that "oh, the most important thing is learning how to learn", and my response would be "yup, and that's project management" – setting yourself a curriculum, figuring out what you're going to do over a period of time, how you're going to measure your progress...
"no wait, actually, the most important thing is learning how to LIVE" and my response would be "yup, and that's project management" – deciding what your priorities and values are, how you should spend your time, what you should do more of, what you should do less of, over decades
Unfortunately some cursory googling reveals that project management is really boring and stale, at least in the way it’s currently taught or conceived of. Ugh I cringe just looking at it https://t.co/vUYbVTaopk
didn't occur to me that I might tweeted about this sort of thing before, but turns out I have: https://t.co/EWq1fTEz53
Some moral thoughts: To be a good person in the world, your "love" has to be able to win out over your "fear". This sounds vague but it actually involves tonnes of nitty gritty project management. If you want be virtuous, you're morally obliged to dismantle a lot of your fears
also true for relationships https://t.co/huZBxui0LX
Give people very specific requests and they will be so glad to be able to help. It's like night and day. Everyone wants to build social capital. Nobody wants to do the thankless, tedious work of figuring out the project management of a new relationship w/ unknown utility
how firaxis games creates a really compelling structure for players to get lost in while getting lots of (in-game) stuff done: https://t.co/yhexQQSx15
In the context of managing the logistics of marriage https://t.co/XXArizBssU
appreciating the differences between these methods is a significant part of being effective at achieving things – incremental is rarely a good idea unless you're really, really certain of what you're doing https://t.co/FBzaT62IXS
Hit me why the curriculum is so stale - it’s optimised for examining and testing students, not for practical learning. In practice you don’t need every detail about every damn thing, you need to know the basics inside out https://t.co/WOWjc9qc7O
Book opens with a joke about how learning the details of technicalities is ineffective when learning a new language. Frank compares 4 years of Spanish (ineffective) vs 13 weeks of rudimentary Nepalese with the Peace corp, mimicking children (effective)
The hardest project to manage is “how to become a better project manager” https://t.co/qc4nqN8CUM
What do we want? The best version of ourselves! When do we want it? On a timeline that’s optimistic (but not so much that it’s unrealistic), challenging (but not so much that it’s unmanageable), flexible (to account for new info) but not flaky (to avoid bullshitting self)...
Some etymology https://t.co/ue6Zk9dSc3
Sequencing a series of progressively larger and more ambitious projects https://t.co/VZC99RN4Ts
a well-designed, simple project takes vague, murky incentives and makes them clear and responsive (eg progress on a meter, with a reward at the end of it) this is what good games do, too. you know what you're working towards, you can often literally see it
misdiagnosed as moral failure https://t.co/DLuM8MJ8gX
funny riff that came out during my last salon: some people have bad project management and they misdiagnose it as moral failure this is like a lvl 1 hero thinking he’s a bad person because the first item on his todo list is “slay dragon” and he hasn’t done it yet
from a tremendous thread of threads about Tolkien’s writing process: https://t.co/n6iR9LeCLX