a maybe interesting question to ask is, “what’s your biggest constraint?”
three common ones I know of are time, energy, and money. idk what the other big ones are
I think people often have a hard time understanding each other when they’re constrained on different things
also moving from one to another is weird. I switched from “energy” to “time” a couple years ago and it took a long time to actually internalize that time was expensive
I think I’ve identified a fourth one: someone I know calls it “brainspace.” (these days I feel sometimes more time-constrained and sometimes more brainspace-constrained I think)
it feels a bit hard to describe, but some symptoms:
- feeling like you have so many things on your to-do list that half of your time is just spent remembering what all the things on your to-do list are
- feeling like you’ve hit a limit of “decisions per day” that takes time to reset
- feeling like time sleeping or away from work has a cost > 1, because of the additional time it takes to reset and load everything back into working memory when you start working again
I sort of feel like I don’t have that much responsibility, in the grand scheme of things, and am curious how other people handle it. Like what do CEOs of real companies do? Or presidents?