CRIMPers = prospective time multipliers?

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jul 10, 2017 at 10:05 AM

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>>This is what he calls the third dimension of time management. The first
>>two are: Urgency and Importance. The third is Significance, which he
>>defines as how long will what you do last?

@ Steve: many thanks for the great summary; I wrote my original post in between project deliveries, hence the excessive brevity!

I would add that, in turn, Automation forms part of a broader approach: Eliminate / Automate / Delegate. In brief, Vaden advocates reducing one’s tasks, vs. simply prioritising them. In this context, his approach is similar to Mark Forster’s.

Dr. Andus wrote:

>My 2 cents concerning this: My problems seem to be not about time
>management but about attention management (as you normally have more
>time than ability to concentrate in a day and in a weekly cycle, so the
>limited resource is attention, or energy, not time).

@ Dr. Andus: Speaking for myself, and though recently diagnosed with ADD, I beg to (partly) disagree: not all hours in the day are created equal. And the hours when I can do deep productive work are precious few.

>As for urgency, importance, and significance, the big issue is the
>quality of judgement that goes into determining what is urgent,
>important, and significant, and perhaps even more importantly, the
>answer to the question “Why should it be me who needs to do all this?”
>(i.e. could the task be delegated to someone else?).

Indeed, see my note to Steve above.

>Sadly, our usual task management software are not geared towards helping
>us how to make these judgements.

To be clear, when referring to CRIMPing and Automation, I was mostly implying information management tools.

>In fact, they might even distract us from them, by instead compelling us
>to develop huge todo lists, which then create a sense of urgency to
>clear the list, when in fact it would be more important to decide what
>not to do or who to delegate it to…

Wholeheartedly agreed; that is why, among other reasons, following my diagnosis, I now take most decisions off-screen.

>Or maybe I’m just not familiar with those tools that can help with
>judgement and delegation? At some point it’s obviously a cognitive
>decision, though maybe with the rise of Artificial Intelligence one day
>we won’t have to be making decisions either…

Possibly (or AI). In other respects, as I am now working with a larger team, I find groupware useful for maintaining an overview.