The following are notes to my self. I'll clean it up later.
General: 1) Split life time into "creation time" and "useful distraction time" and remove "useless distractions". I'll call the first two C,D. 2) Have a hierarchy of creating platforms, from the most creative but disorganized to least creative but organized. For research this can range from pencil-paper to Obsidian to LaTeX. I'll call these layers X,Y,Z. 3) Everything productive and good as honesty in description and expression.
Specific:
General: 1) Split life time into "creation time" and "useful distraction time" and remove "useless distractions". I'll call the first two C,D. 2) Have a hierarchy of creating platforms, from the most creative but disorganized to least creative but organized. For research this can range from pencil-paper to Obsidian to LaTeX. I'll call these layers X,Y,Z. 3) Everything productive and good as honesty in description and expression.
Specific:
- Science and Technology: 1)[D] {X,Z} A playground where ideas and questions are freely encountered and explored. The only drives are curiosity and inner motivation to address some need. This is where individual projects crystalize 2)[D] {X} Learning general skills and becoming proficient with the tools we already have to make sense of—to the best we currently can— and to meddle with the things in the playground. 3) Crystalized individual projects; This consists of three components. a) {X} [C]Learning of skills directly related to the project, if needed. b)[C] {X,Z} A playground to explore ideas and questions within the project c)[C] {X,Y,Z} Updating oneself of the literature related to the project—of the knowledge and technical development already in the purview and the actual creating of the substance of the project, brick by brick.
- Literature: Just two components. 1) [D] Living and feeling life fully, attentively, rationally, empathetically, and deeply. And experiencing the literature of others. 2) [C]{X,Y}Diving into the act of creating. No rules. But I think three things converge when creation happens— a) an abstract theme (could be things like justice, mortality, science, ambition or anything else). This could be life lessons, parables, observations, experiences etc. b) a setting and some memorable characters. c) the flux of feelings the author wants to convey—the rest is driven by the free will of the creator doing the literary creation and the flux of influence the creator goes through in their life.