for the life-designer who has plateaued and wants to push past competence
Goal
Run a one-week sprint that breaks your current method and tries three new approaches to find a new edge.
Source principle
Experimentation: once competent, deliberately vary methods to find new edges past the plateau. : from Ultralearning by Scott Young.
The plan
- 🔍Sun PMAudit your current method. Write its assumed constraints. All of them.
- 📊Mon AMSet the benchmark. One metric you'll measure all three approaches on.
- 🅰️Mon PMTry approach A: one that breaks one constraint. Real reps.
- 🅱️Tue PMTry approach B: different constraint broken. Real reps.
- 🅲Wed PMTry approach C: third constraint. Real reps.
- 📊Thu PMRun the SAME benchmark on all three. Real numbers. Honest.
- ✅Fri AMAdopt the winning approach into your routine. Calendar it.
- 🪞Fri PMReflect: which constraint was the real bottleneck? Write it.
- 📖Sat AMReflection: what did the experiment reveal? Write it plain.
- ✍️Sat PMWrite-up: one page. Method, results, next experiment.
- 📅Sun AMPlan next sprint. One new constraint to break.