http://www.personalkanban.com/pk/expert/combating-existential-overhead/ visualize. learn. improve. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:24:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.personalkanban.com/pk/expert/combating-existential-overhead/#comment-32 Why Limit Work in Progress? | Modus Cooperandi Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:21:27 +0000 http://personalkanban.com/?p=175#comment-32 [...] When we promise work – we agree to juggle it.  When we start it – we start juggling.  Even if you stop working on it, you’re brain keeps juggling it.  You see, when you have an unfinished task, your brain starts thinking about how it will be completed, why you have to do it, when the deadline is, the person for whom you are doing it and all the emotional baggage that might go with any of those. Your brain doesn’t stop thinking about these things until they are “done”.  Even if you set it aside, it still creates existential overhead. [...] [...] When we promise work – we agree to juggle it.  When we start it – we start juggling.  Even if you stop working on it, you’re brain keeps juggling it.  You see, when you have an unfinished task, your brain starts thinking about how it will be completed, why you have to do it, when the deadline is, the person for whom you are doing it and all the emotional baggage that might go with any of those. Your brain doesn’t stop thinking about these things until they are “done”.  Even if you set it aside, it still creates existential overhead. [...]

]]> http://www.personalkanban.com/pk/expert/combating-existential-overhead/#comment-31 Why Limit Work in Progress? | Personal Kanban Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:27:20 +0000 http://personalkanban.com/?p=175#comment-31 [...] When we promise work – we agree to juggle it.  When we start it – we start juggling.  Even if you stop working on it, you’re brain keeps juggling it.  You see, when you have an unfinished task, your brain starts thinking about how it will be completed, why you have to do it, when the deadline is, the person for whom you are doing it and all the emotional baggage that might go with any of those. Your brain doesn’t stop thinking about these things until they are “done”.  Even if you set it aside, it still creates existential overhead. [...] [...] When we promise work – we agree to juggle it.  When we start it – we start juggling.  Even if you stop working on it, you’re brain keeps juggling it.  You see, when you have an unfinished task, your brain starts thinking about how it will be completed, why you have to do it, when the deadline is, the person for whom you are doing it and all the emotional baggage that might go with any of those. Your brain doesn’t stop thinking about these things until they are “done”.  Even if you set it aside, it still creates existential overhead. [...]

]]> http://www.personalkanban.com/pk/expert/combating-existential-overhead/#comment-30 Limiting your Work in Progress | Personal Kanban Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:12:18 +0000 http://personalkanban.com/?p=175#comment-30 [...] about these things until they are “done”.  Even if you set it aside, it still creates existential overhead. Share this postBloglinesDiggdel.icio.usFacebookFurlStumbleUponAKPC_IDS += "214,";Popularity: [...] [...] about these things until they are “done”.  Even if you set it aside, it still creates existential overhead. Share this postBloglinesDiggdel.icio.usFacebookFurlStumbleUponAKPC_IDS += "214,";Popularity: [...]

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