STEP 05 · DESIGN OUT THE REMEMBERING

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Let your environment do the remembering.

Anything that depends on you remembering it will eventually stop happening. Anything built into your environment keeps going without you.

  1. Remembering
Open notebook and pen on a linen surface

A task asks for willpower every time it comes due. A default only asks once — when you set it up.

So for each change you chose, name the thing that makes it automatic: a subscription that arrives, a slot that recurs, a room you belong to, a person who expects you, a project that won't let you drift.

INSTEAD OF A TASK, A DEFAULT

  • Read more about AI.

    Subscribe to one excellent AI newsletter that arrives every Tuesday.

  • Talk to more people in my field.

    Join a recurring monthly community where those conversations already happen.

  • Experiment more.

    Use one existing project as the testing ground for one new experiment each month.

  • Learn from better people.

    Retrain my feed — follow practitioners whose work I respect, remove the accounts that create noise.

YOUR CHANGES

You haven't chosen any changes yet. Step back one and pick at least one — then design the remembering out of it.

Build by design, not by default.

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