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Outline Your Life

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"What are you doing right now, and how is that contributing to the overarching goals for your life?"

  • The “runway” level: the small projects and associated tasks that you’ve undertaken in the short term, like going to the grocery store to pick up coffee and dog food (which reminds me…)
  • Go on a walk to recharge my brain
  • 10,000 ft. level: the list of projects to which you've committed.
  • Keybase Analytics Dashboard
  • 20,000 ft. level: your job and obligations
  • Job; Swarmio
  • Obligations; Friends, John's rent, acknowledge family
  • 30,000 ft. level: the bigger picture of your job, in terms of where you are aiming to be 1–2 years from now.
  • Chief crypto officer, CEO of Daemon Enterprises Incorporated
  • 40,000 ft. level: the goals and purpose of your job, your work, and/or your company. Things begin to get pretty abstract here.

  • 50,000 ft. level: the overarching purpose in your life, your big goals, your endgame.

  • Take your current to-do list, in all of its cluttered glory, and hide it from view.

  • Take out a new blank list medium (paper or digital, your choice).
  • Start at 50,000 feet and list no more than 5 major goals for yourself, leaving space under each one to fill in some items later. Take at least an hour to do this (really think it through).
  • Wife and kids, with optional Harrem
  • Reverse engineer the human soul
  • Daemon/NSA operator, wield human industrial society like a glove
  • Hacker university collective / rapture DAO
  • RBC Ventures
  • Take out your original to-do list and place it alongside your new 50,000 ft. list.
  • For each item from your original to-do list, attempt to place it in the space under one of your major goals on your new list. Skip any items that you can’t place within a minute or two. Cross each item off of your original list as you place it.

"Be judicious in what you choose to take on; if it doesn’t fit in the outline of your goals, you probably shouldn’t do it. You’ll end up with a lot of things you just aren’t doing, but now, you can feel good about not doing them."

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