How to Think
Or, how to be creative, thoughtful, and powerful in a world where problems are extremely complex, targets are continuously moving, and our brains often seem like nodes of enormous networks that constantly reconfigure
. This article is well worth a few more reads through.
Long term plans, working backwards from a goal, and logarithmic time scheduling have been fairly natural for me lately. There are a few others of these that I intend to start doing more: synthesize constantly (including conversation summaries), document obsessively, and writing up best-practices protocols.