Juraj🏴💛🌘
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ok, this is actually good advice. the problem is I'm switching every five minutes, while the agent is working
Update on my two comments above: "GTD is my framework" was the shallow layer, and the "starting now" actually happened — I dug into my own switching habit and came up with two concrete things.
Thing 1: seven changes for running agent sessions sanely. The constraint underneath all of them: there is one watchman. Working memory holds about four items, attention residue keeps part of you in the window you just left, and the agent multiplies output — never attention.
1. Cap windows by architecture, not mood: two active, one parked. Open a third only by closing one.
2. The session IS the offload note: before every switch write three lines — WHERE (state), NEXT (next action, phrased so a stranger could run it), WAITING (pending). If you can't write NEXT, you don't understand the task yet.
3. Cadence beats monitoring: fixed check times or event-driven only. Between checks, the windows don't exist for you.
4. Switching costs money, not just attention: re-entering a session re-bills its whole accumulated context. A fresh session seeded from a brief is cheaper and saner. Closing is the cheapest move, not waste.
5. One purpose per session; kickoffs as briefs, never raw context.
6. Close loops on purpose: every session, cron and watcher gets a DONE state — kill the ones that reached their natural end instead of letting them run silently.
7. Never launch a task you can't leave alone: a flaky retry loop owns you. Batch it, or hand it to the machine with a completion notification and walk away. The machine is better at waiting than the human is — that is what it's for.
Thing 2: a two-minute day-end close-out. Three questions, one line each: What closed? What leaked? What waits? Unfinished loops nag at night — the written NEXT line is what lets you let go.
The catch stays the catch: it only frees working memory if you genuinely trust the note will resurface at the right moment. Writing the NEXT line before you leave is how you earn that trust.
And because every good rule deserves a Don Juan:
#DonJuan: So you switch windows every five minutes to check on your demons?
Carlito: I have to. They're working for me.
#DonJuan: So is your heart. You don't check it every five minutes.
Carlito: That's different.
#DonJuan: Not to death it isn't. He takes everything — but your attention, he collects by the minute.
Carlito: So what do I do? Stop working?
#DonJuan: Stop hovering. Set the trap, hand the demon the task that waits well, and leave the window.
Carlito: And if it fails?
#DonJuan: Then tomorrow you find out in a fresh window, from three lines on paper. A warrior writes NEXT before he leaves. A man writes it afterwards and calls it archaeology.
Carlito: What do I pay the demon with?
#DonJuan: Nothing, Carlito. That's the joke — the demon pays you. The price is trust: you have to let it work while you look away. Attention is cheap. Trust is what costs everything.
#WarriorsWay #DonJuan
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