Intend and Improvise
- workshop part of MetaFam thing
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- get some context on the larger thing that this workshop is part of
- high-level intro to this
- experimental presentation
- haven't given this before
- some elements are core to the app I've been running for years
- there are also things that are at the edge of my understanding
- an alternative to "task" or "todo"
- a different way of thinking about things you're working on
- core question is like "what does it mean to choose to do something you don't know how to do?"
- how do you make good on a choice like that?
- beyond just "trying"
- talk about PCT for a bit - what is a goal/intention/etc?
- gap between desired state and perceived state
- can be on different levels - give basic physical examples
- can involve unclear end-state, as long as recognizeable, etc
- lower-level ones in service of higher-level ones; sometimes get dropped completely
- also conflict
- exercise: reflect on some of the goals/intentions you've held during the hack-week
- ideally finding at least one of each of these:
- something you finished
- something you dropped
- something you're still intending
- for the one you dropped, did you drop the intention it was in service of too? can you go up levels until you find an intention that didn't drop?
- talk about improvisation, Koln, Herbie-Miles, dance, "no mistakes"
- example of driving with Romeo
- exercise: reflect on the hack-week so far, and what unexpecteds have arisen, and how they've worked with them
- bonus: find something that worked out unexpectedly but in your favor or you turned it into something good
- exercise: consider an action that you intend to take sometime today, where you don't know exactly how it's going to be done, and that you could start to work on nowish while on this call (you might need to go to a different room but not a different building)
- then try doing it kind of in slow motion, paying attention to what arises
- in particular, notice
- what it feels like to shift your intention from "pay attention to this presentation" to "work on thing"... do you already feel antsy?
- conflict
- what sub-intentions arise as part of orienting towards this bigger intention?
- where do you complete a sub-intention, where do you drop one?
- what does it feel like to be stuck/stumped?
3 linked references
February 21st, 2021
- is the talk title I proposed for a talk I might give in a few weeks
- building on the kind of PCT stuff
- plus What are plans for?
- plus intentionality