¬ just serendipity 🍀 (not just serendipity)

I feel I got to a point where my own environment is limiting my creativity. And this is something I would like to change. Allow me to explain.

I have a myriad of ideas in my head. Recently I’ve been noting down some of them in my PKM, which reduces stress. On the other hand, most of these ideas ended up becoming abandoned bullet points, lost in the sea of interconnected pages in my knowledge graph.

I know what to do when I want to convert an idea into reality: the very first step is to add it to my task manager, and then schedule / prioritize it. This is a superpower that I love: it’s virtually impossible to forget anything that ends up in the task manager. Whether it’s tax season, or a random deadline to apply for something, or to cancel a recurring subscription, or to buy tickets for a concert…full stop. The difficulty lies in breaking down a large(r) and/or long(er)-term project into smaller, actionable pieces.

There is at least one missing piece in my current workflow (and environment), which I am still trying to figure out, to close the loop and become 10x more productive, reducing the time between the conception of an idea and its implementation.

The best example that illustrates it is that post about the Raspberry Pi. It never took off (and it’s still in my backlog!). Another example is the Kindle jailbreak – it took me 4-5 months to do it. Once I started it, it took me only a few minutes to start it¹. So the major bottleneck is to kick start a project. I am very confident in my current skill set and knowledge for the execution once it has taken off.

What can I do in order to be more effective in terms of converting abstract ideas into small, concrete and actionable items?

The discovery journey continues².