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Plan, do, learn: My somewhat hardcore work routine

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I have ADHD. It's my superpower. Because brains with ADHD find games hard to resist. And I — an engineer — love building games that make it fun to do unfun things. I'm also an entrepreneur with full autonomy over my own schedule. So I've applied gamification principles to innovate my own work schedule from the ground up rather than lazily adopting norms from the 9-to-5 world. I frame my work in hierarchical units that I call "plan, do, learn loops." In other words, I a) make a plan, then b) do the plan, then c) learn from my efforts by reviewing my progress. Then I do it over again in a loop that never ends. Yes: this is just a fancy way of saying the scientific method. And here's what I mean by "hierarchical units." These plan, do, learn loops ("PDL loops" for short) exist at six nested levels: In other words, each PDL loop consists of a smaller PDL loop (except for actions, which are the smallest loop). And, of course, each loop is similar to the other loops insofar as they all invol

Plan, do, learn: My somewhat hardcore work routine - Indie Hackers 111 Likes 10 Bookmarks 91 Comments I have ADHD. It's my superpower. Because brains with ADHD find games hard to resist. And I — an engineer — love building games that make it fun to do unfun things. I'm also an entrepreneur with full autonomy over my own schedule. So I've applied gamification principles to innovate my own work schedule from the ground up rather than lazily adopting norms from the 9-to-5 world. I frame my work in hierarchical units that I call "plan, do, learn loops." In other words, I a) make a plan, then b) do

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