wired

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Wired/wiredness/staticity refers to the state where:

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wiredness narrows

While in the wired state, the context of homogeneous content which you are wired to would narrow in the course of time.

For example, if you are wired to “browsing instagram”, in 30 minutes time, it would be just “scrolling one reel thread”; if you are wired to “watching netflix”, in 2 hours time it would be just “fast forward, next episode”, saving the search, refering to your watch list, or selecting.

vicinity of primitives

(state space)

State reachable solely with transitions defined by the primitives.

Sementically, in the context of working habit, it would refer to a physical workspace and mental load, each primitive aciton could do something to the physical workspace(have index that are more convenient, have a lot of notes in one large file) and the mental load (getting more wired, getting more focused, getting more relaxed, etc.) 

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unwiring

action that get you out of the wired state.

  • mindfulness and meditation of any kind seems to work pretty well
  • exercise seems to work

(example)

I could wake up and immediately start programing(computer is by my bed), and do some blind programming, with not noting down anything and increasing wiredness, 10 hour straight, until I’m too tired to do anything and sleep.

This happens to me a lot of days of my life, with different activities, but mostly in my room and spans the whole dayl.

as with levels of wiredness, low level of wiredness provides a self-maintaining narrow-scoped focus with a level of staticity you can still manage to shake off.

life

(Be honest and truthful - facts and observations)

levels of wiredness

wiredness is a category a series of states that narrows in time.

level signal
1 staticness
2 shortened breath
3 compulsive repetition
staticness
feeling comfortable to stay in the same spot or feeling uncomfortable, finding the idea to move exhausting
shortened breath
restrained movement, especially in breathing and chest pressure, depth of breath significantly shortened.
compulsive repetition
keep on doing one narrowed thing(like scrolling feed) while that cause physical or mental pain.

The self-enhancing started at level 1, though weak, and get stronger onver time.

[add an illustration here]

  • The full setup:
    • left hand - italian gesture(rotating around waist, still, or rubbing fingers works slightly differently), typically out of sight(to the up left). Sometime I hold stuff, but that did not work as well as empty handed italian gesture
    • right hand - scrolling
  • effect
    • increased patience to long text
    • prevent attention drifting off from text/material to some extent
    • slow the pace of staticity - intend to move/scroll down

cold exposure

Deliberately exposing part or whole of body to cold {air,water}.

Usually most conveinient as cold shower, while cold bath is slightly less convenient but said to be more efficient.

attributes:

not exhausting
it takes almost no effort/stamina to take cold exposure. you need to be doing a very long time of cold exposure to exhaust yourself
increase momentum
a long-lasting (4-5 hours) dramatic effect on momentum, and almost always induce the spinning state (never failed on me); notice it is still easily broken by staticity

avoid getting wired by heterogenizing activity

heterogenizing activity

alternate delivery, format, nature in general of the focused material, and/or method of attention.

For example, on one’s way to understand a concept such as “what is PID controller”, they may go through the following activities:

  • homogenous version: watch film[on film] -> watch film[on film] -> read passage[on words] -> watch film[on film]
  • heterogeneous version: watch film[on film] -> literate idea[on reasoning, concepts, and observation] -> read article[on words] -> talk about the idea [serializing components] -> make graph [imagine, visualization]
heterogenization in action

controll the time you continuously do one thing; when having done it for long, change it’s delivery, format, or topic.

When you have written code on computer for 30 minutes, stop writing it and either take a look at the design, draw a graph of the code[format], sum up the progress, write it on paper, check the logic, or just do some little exercise.

why

homogeneous content would cause one to be wired, which is not good for creative experience for many reasons.

heterogenizing focused materials/means of analysis prevent one to be wired because of this.

(no term)
phone in heterogenizing activity

30 minute dumping as primitive

(Whys > why 30 minutes)

the number is arbitary and 30 minutes is roughly when:

  • I would get wired to reading too much that I just want to keep on reading without taking any notes or remembering anything
  • I start to forget what happened at the start of it

current life script

(Avoid wiredness)

Do it early, or it becomes too hard. 

(rule (custom-trigger "feeling static")
      (action (select "change ..."
                      '("delivery - speak, read, write"
                        "format - mindmap, zettel, illustration"
                        "material - site, paper"
                        "nature - implement, design"
                        "method - brain storm, serialization, compilation"
                        "place - kitchen, outside, room"))))

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wiredness narrows

While in the wired state, the context of homogeneous content which you are wired to would narrow in the course of time.

For example, if you are wired to “browsing instagram”, in 30 minutes time, it would be just “scrolling one reel thread”; if you are wired to “watching netflix”, in 2 hours time it would be just “fast forward, next episode”, saving the search, refering to your watch list, or selecting.

vicinity of primitives

(state space)

State reachable solely with transitions defined by the primitives.

Sementically, in the context of working habit, it would refer to a physical workspace and mental load, each primitive aciton could do something to the physical workspace(have index that are more convenient, have a lot of notes in one large file) and the mental load (getting more wired, getting more focused, getting more relaxed, etc.) 

Add some visual here with krita

unwiring

action that get you out of the wired state.

  • mindfulness and meditation of any kind seems to work pretty well
  • exercise seems to work

(example)

I could wake up and immediately start programing(computer is by my bed), and do some blind programming, with not noting down anything and increasing wiredness, 10 hour straight, until I’m too tired to do anything and sleep.

This happens to me a lot of days of my life, with different activities, but mostly in my room and spans the whole dayl.

as with levels of wiredness, low level of wiredness provides a self-maintaining narrow-scoped focus with a level of staticity you can still manage to shake off.

life

(Be honest and truthful - facts and observations)

levels of wiredness

wiredness is a category a series of states that narrows in time.

level signal
1 staticness
2 shortened breath
3 compulsive repetition
staticness
feeling comfortable to stay in the same spot or feeling uncomfortable, finding the idea to move exhausting
shortened breath
restrained movement, especially in breathing and chest pressure, depth of breath significantly shortened.
compulsive repetition
keep on doing one narrowed thing(like scrolling feed) while that cause physical or mental pain.

The self-enhancing started at level 1, though weak, and get stronger onver time.

[add an illustration here]

  • The full setup:
    • left hand - italian gesture(rotating around waist, still, or rubbing fingers works slightly differently), typically out of sight(to the up left). Sometime I hold stuff, but that did not work as well as empty handed italian gesture
    • right hand - scrolling
  • effect
    • increased patience to long text
    • prevent attention drifting off from text/material to some extent
    • slow the pace of staticity - intend to move/scroll down

cold exposure

Deliberately exposing part or whole of body to cold {air,water}.

Usually most conveinient as cold shower, while cold bath is slightly less convenient but said to be more efficient.

attributes:

not exhausting
it takes almost no effort/stamina to take cold exposure. you need to be doing a very long time of cold exposure to exhaust yourself
increase momentum
a long-lasting (4-5 hours) dramatic effect on momentum, and almost always induce the spinning state (never failed on me); notice it is still easily broken by staticity

avoid getting wired by heterogenizing activity

heterogenizing activity

alternate delivery, format, nature in general of the focused material, and/or method of attention.

For example, on one’s way to understand a concept such as “what is PID controller”, they may go through the following activities:

  • homogenous version: watch film[on film] -> watch film[on film] -> read passage[on words] -> watch film[on film]
  • heterogeneous version: watch film[on film] -> literate idea[on reasoning, concepts, and observation] -> read article[on words] -> talk about the idea [serializing components] -> make graph [imagine, visualization]
heterogenization in action

controll the time you continuously do one thing; when having done it for long, change it’s delivery, format, or topic.

When you have written code on computer for 30 minutes, stop writing it and either take a look at the design, draw a graph of the code[format], sum up the progress, write it on paper, check the logic, or just do some little exercise.

why

homogeneous content would cause one to be wired, which is not good for creative experience for many reasons.

heterogenizing focused materials/means of analysis prevent one to be wired because of this.

(no term)
phone in heterogenizing activity

30 minute dumping as primitive

(Whys > why 30 minutes)

the number is arbitary and 30 minutes is roughly when:

  • I would get wired to reading too much that I just want to keep on reading without taking any notes or remembering anything
  • I start to forget what happened at the start of it

current life script

(Avoid wiredness)

Do it early, or it becomes too hard. 

(rule (custom-trigger "feeling static")
      (action (select "change ..."
                      '("delivery - speak, read, write"
                        "format - mindmap, zettel, illustration"
                        "material - site, paper"
                        "nature - implement, design"
                        "method - brain storm, serialization, compilation"
                        "place - kitchen, outside, room"))))

Backlinks

wiredness narrows

While in the wired state, the context of homogeneous content which you are wired to would narrow in the course of time.

For example, if you are wired to “browsing instagram”, in 30 minutes time, it would be just “scrolling one reel thread”; if you are wired to “watching netflix”, in 2 hours time it would be just “fast forward, next episode”, saving the search, refering to your watch list, or selecting.

vicinity of primitives

(state space)

State reachable solely with transitions defined by the primitives.

Sementically, in the context of working habit, it would refer to a physical workspace and mental load, each primitive aciton could do something to the physical workspace(have index that are more convenient, have a lot of notes in one large file) and the mental load (getting more wired, getting more focused, getting more relaxed, etc.) 

Add some visual here with krita

unwiring

action that get you out of the wired state.

  • mindfulness and meditation of any kind seems to work pretty well
  • exercise seems to work

(example)

I could wake up and immediately start programing(computer is by my bed), and do some blind programming, with not noting down anything and increasing wiredness, 10 hour straight, until I’m too tired to do anything and sleep.

This happens to me a lot of days of my life, with different activities, but mostly in my room and spans the whole dayl.

as with levels of wiredness, low level of wiredness provides a self-maintaining narrow-scoped focus with a level of staticity you can still manage to shake off.

life

(Be honest and truthful - facts and observations)

levels of wiredness

wiredness is a category a series of states that narrows in time.

level signal
1 staticness
2 shortened breath
3 compulsive repetition
staticness
feeling comfortable to stay in the same spot or feeling uncomfortable, finding the idea to move exhausting
shortened breath
restrained movement, especially in breathing and chest pressure, depth of breath significantly shortened.
compulsive repetition
keep on doing one narrowed thing(like scrolling feed) while that cause physical or mental pain.

The self-enhancing started at level 1, though weak, and get stronger onver time.

[add an illustration here]

  • The full setup:
    • left hand - italian gesture(rotating around waist, still, or rubbing fingers works slightly differently), typically out of sight(to the up left). Sometime I hold stuff, but that did not work as well as empty handed italian gesture
    • right hand - scrolling
  • effect
    • increased patience to long text
    • prevent attention drifting off from text/material to some extent
    • slow the pace of staticity - intend to move/scroll down

cold exposure

Deliberately exposing part or whole of body to cold {air,water}.

Usually most conveinient as cold shower, while cold bath is slightly less convenient but said to be more efficient.

attributes:

not exhausting
it takes almost no effort/stamina to take cold exposure. you need to be doing a very long time of cold exposure to exhaust yourself
increase momentum
a long-lasting (4-5 hours) dramatic effect on momentum, and almost always induce the spinning state (never failed on me); notice it is still easily broken by staticity

avoid getting wired by heterogenizing activity

heterogenizing activity

alternate delivery, format, nature in general of the focused material, and/or method of attention.

For example, on one’s way to understand a concept such as “what is PID controller”, they may go through the following activities:

  • homogenous version: watch film[on film] -> watch film[on film] -> read passage[on words] -> watch film[on film]
  • heterogeneous version: watch film[on film] -> literate idea[on reasoning, concepts, and observation] -> read article[on words] -> talk about the idea [serializing components] -> make graph [imagine, visualization]
heterogenization in action

controll the time you continuously do one thing; when having done it for long, change it’s delivery, format, or topic.

When you have written code on computer for 30 minutes, stop writing it and either take a look at the design, draw a graph of the code[format], sum up the progress, write it on paper, check the logic, or just do some little exercise.

why

homogeneous content would cause one to be wired, which is not good for creative experience for many reasons.

heterogenizing focused materials/means of analysis prevent one to be wired because of this.

(no term)
phone in heterogenizing activity

30 minute dumping as primitive

(Whys > why 30 minutes)

the number is arbitary and 30 minutes is roughly when:

  • I would get wired to reading too much that I just want to keep on reading without taking any notes or remembering anything
  • I start to forget what happened at the start of it

current life script

(Avoid wiredness)

Do it early, or it becomes too hard. 

(rule (custom-trigger "feeling static")
      (action (select "change ..."
                      '("delivery - speak, read, write"
                        "format - mindmap, zettel, illustration"
                        "material - site, paper"
                        "nature - implement, design"
                        "method - brain storm, serialization, compilation"
                        "place - kitchen, outside, room"))))

Author: Linfeng He

Created: 2024-04-03 Wed 23:22