The Phantom Chapter of the Engineer's Intellectual Production Technique

There was a chapter called "Meditation" at this stage, but it didn't connect well with the other chapters, so it was deleted.

The event is presented as having occurred. I was looking at the repository and saw that the text removed from the proposed heading was committed on 2017-04-10, so I'm posting it here for fun.

Initially, I thought it would be a good idea to include actual data on the process of the book's creation itself, such as an appendix chapter.

The editor's decision not to include it was appropriate, since the book is still relatively thick in its current state after the removal.

An expanded edition, maybe it would be better to publish it electronically instead of in a paper book.

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2017-04-10

Chapter 7: I can't keep going.

Is continuity an end or a means? A means to an end?

The "Snacking and Studying Method."

What is needed for continuity

■■ How to get hooked

■■ Trigger: Need a trigger

■■ Rewards: Rewards are required.

■■ INVESTMENT: Investment required

■■ Appropriate difficulty adjustment

■■ Flow Theory: Between Boredom and Anxiety

Chapter 8: Uncluttered

What is "tidying up"?

Be able to see where it is located.

■■ Classification

Humans cannot create perfect classifications from the start.

■■ The Bat Problem

■■ One Pocket Principle

Strategy to give up classification and put it in one place

Difference between objects and information

■■ Location Limitations = Index

By allowing the database index to efficiently determine "not here".

Mechanisms to reduce time spent finding "where is it?"

The index works in the same way in organizing physical objects.

All the receipts are in this box."

The requirement for effectiveness is to be sure that it is not elsewhere.

■■ Bottom-up

How to create an index, build from the bottom up

■■ Time frame

The time axis is a handy index.

■■ Search

Things are difficult to search. This is an approach to make it easier to search.

Masui method of super-organization, potato search

Chaos and Creativity

Does chaos increase creativity?

With "chaos" of 100 sticky notes spread out on a desk,

The "chaos" of not being able to find the necessary tools is different.

Jiro Kawakita of "Let Chaos Speak."

Chapter 9: Impatience.

Gap between ideal and reality

Aiming for an ideal beyond what can be done (reality) creates frustration.

Impatience is the engine of ambition, but it must be controlled to the extent that it does not overheat and burn itself out.

■■ The Problem of Perfectionism

Suffer from striving for perfection from the start.

■■ Incremental

Repeated improvement and gradual betterment.

■■ Default zero

If we don't do it, it's zero, so let's try everything.

Failure is also an opportunity to learn

Physicality

(Maybe physicality is not the right word, I can't think of a replacement right now.)

It is strange to ignore the "body" as irrelevant when discussing the "spirit" of motivation and agitation.

The human spirit is affected by the body more than he or she realizes.

With regard to agitation in particular, caffeine intake is known to have an effect.

■■ Watch out for caffeine

Caffeine causes agitation.

Theanine in green tea eases agitation.

Introduction to an experiment in which both caffeine and theanine are ingested.

Temperature, moisture, oxygen, and blood glucose

■■ Headache

■■ Sensory deprivation

■■ Isolation tanks

■■ Eye mask

■■ Earplugs and muffled headphones

Meditation

■■ Slow down the gears.

■■ Override your thoughts

■■ Stop thinking

■■ Interrupt the movement of the mind

Chapter 11: Fallen Earnings

(This chapter may be omitted.)

Chapter 12: How this book was made

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