{"id":1894,"date":"2009-10-29T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2020-05-03T19:48:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T23:48:56","slug":"a-useful-abstraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/29\/a-useful-abstraction\/","title":{"rendered":"A useful Abstraction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019ve been doing a little trick that taught me, and it works, so I\u2019ll pass it on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m a big fan of lists. Everything needs to be on a list. I will go back and populate a to-do list with things I\u2019ve already done \u2026 checking them off as I go. That\u2019s my broken-ness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here\u2019s the trick. I run one to-do list for any given day. I set it up in the morning. I add to it as things need doing. In the evening, I check things off and review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the morning, I look at yesterday\u2019s list \u2026 and then I throw it away. Every day gets a clean sheet of paper. Perhaps yesterday\u2019s tasks don\u2019t make it to today\u2019s list. In fact, that\u2019s the big trick \u2013 figuring out the things that made the list yesterday but aren\u2019t really important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been doing a little trick that taught me, and it works, so I\u2019ll pass it on. I\u2019m a big fan of lists. Everything needs to be on a list. I will go back and populate a to-do list with things I\u2019ve already done \u2026&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-productivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}