5 minute rule; part 2

i like the poetry (irony? serendipity? whatever...) of using the five minute rule to explain the five minute rule. while i've been questioned a couple of times about it in the 10 years, i think it could stand concretization.

the first time i was kicked out and readmitted to college (about 10 years ago), i was forced to take a student development course. they discussed time management, study methods, etc. as you can imagine, i was daily riveted.

one (and only one) concept stuck with me. the idea behind the five minute rule is simple. if you need to get something done, tell yourself you'll do it now, but only for five minutes, after which you can stop. of course, five minutes come and go, and you're already working, so might as well continue. and the reason you keep using the rule is that, this time, you really will work for only five minutes. the reason i like it so much is, i think, that it resonates with my personal motto: self actualization through self delusion.

with respect to this blog, i use the five minute rule to just write something (like this post), no matter how irrelevant. this gets the motor running, and i can then direct that energy towards stuff i actually care about writing (like the groundwork for this story i'm working on). so in the future, post titled "5 minute rule" will probably be random nonsense. (at least, they'll be less pointed than this post.)

an application of the 5 minute rule...

hmmm... three weeks since my last post. i need to work on that.

today is just a list of things i'm thinking about doing. can't say i'll get to 'em all. can't say they're all the same scope, either.

ultimately, i want to do research in creative ai. just gotta find a starting place.

i came up with a technique for analyzing feature models for application product lines for a project last semester. i should do a more formal treatment for it.

i think i can jump onto some natural language processing research. maybe.

there's this writing project with rodd. for a start i might throw some character sketches here.

i want babies. 3 of them. girls. Alice, Megan, and Sarah. it'd be nice if i can get married, but if i have to buy some surrogates, then i will.

i'ma goan gradumate and get me a job. sumday.

making some dinner sounds pretty good right now.