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    <title>cmdln.net_2007-10-24</title>
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    <outline text="Intro" Offset="00:17">
      <outline text="DC CopyNight"/>
      <outline text="Vacation"/>
      <outline text="Questions for Professor Lessig"/>
    </outline>
    <outline text="Word of the Week: Conway's Law" Offset="06:31">
      <outline text="http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/Conways-Law.html"/>
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    <outline text="Inner Chapter: Will" Offset="07:55">
      <outline text="Definition">
        <outline text="The faculty by which a person decides on and initiates action"/>
        <outline text="Without will, there is no action"/>
        <outline text="The nature of the action seems to beg the amount of will"/>
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      <outline text="I think this is a false perception">
        <outline text="Getting started is the hard part"/>
        <outline text="Practice makes the most difficult, complex task easier"/>
        <outline text="Practicing is mustering will repeatedly"/>
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      <outline text="Why am I talking about will?">
        <outline text="Many perceive me as being highly disciplined"/>
        <outline text="I don't think I do anything special"/>
        <outline text="Try to mentor coworkers to be more disciplined"/>
        <outline text="How do you achieve that?"/>
        <outline text="Will plus practice equals discipline"/>
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      <outline text="Organizational will">
        <outline text="Best thought of as consensus"/>
        <outline text="Requires some sense of commitment"/>
        <outline text="Communication, perception may be more involved"/>
        <outline text="Still boils down to that decision to act"/>
        <outline text="Not as relevant to organization discipline"/>
        <outline text="Discipline comes from leadership, culture more than organization will"/>
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      <outline text="How do you encourage, garner or find will?">
        <outline text="Treat it as a hacking challenge">
          <outline text="Experiment, everyone is different"/>
          <outline text="Take notes, keep a journal on what does and does not work"/>
          <outline text="Research!  There are many books, resources to be found"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Stack the deck, make it as easy to choose action as not">
          <outline text="Lots of automation"/>
          <outline text="Enlightened self interest"/>
          <outline text="How is doing something hard, now, going to make life easier later on?"/>
          <outline text="I am a code documentation fiend"/>
          <outline text="I hate being interrupted"/>
          <outline text="I especially hate it for simple questions"/>
          <outline text="Every bit of code I document is potentially one less simple question"/>
          <outline text="This makes the will to document easier than leaving it an risking interruption"/>
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        <outline text="Stupid tricks help">
          <outline text="Motivational songs"/>
          <outline text="Mantras"/>
          <outline text="Really, whatever gets you moving, working"/>
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        <outline text="Balance work and reward">
          <outline text="Traditional motivational techniques"/>
          <outline text="Defer a pleasure activity, like a game, a movie or a book until some discrete unit of work is complete"/>
          <outline text="I think this is risky, the reward is also a temptation to avoid work"/>
          <outline text="You need to find ways of working up will that are less likely to be subverted"/>
          <outline text="The improvement in discipline should yield its own rewards, without anything artificial added"/>
          <outline text="Will can be its own reward, sometimes">
            <outline text="The satisfaction of a job undertaken and completed"/>
            <outline text="The bragging rights of good practices"/>
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        <outline text="Borrow will from group, peers">
          <outline text="Having a group doing similar, if not the same work, can help"/>
          <outline text="Careful, can also turn into competition, demotivate"/>
          <outline text="The right kind of self-aware group can seriously help"/>
          <outline text="Solidarity with writer friends"/>
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      <outline text="Will doesn't necessarily transfer">
        <outline text="Each activity begs its own particular quality, quantity"/>
        <outline text="I can muster will to code"/>
        <outline text="I have a much harder time with physical activities"/>
        <outline text="Exercise is one challenge, not surprisingly"/>
        <outline text="Techniques can be translated, to help"/>
        <outline text="Stupid motivational phrases help me exercise"/>
        <outline text="Constantly looking for advice from friends tackling exercise goals"/>
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      <outline text="Simply being conscious of that moment of will can help">
        <outline text="Am I making an excuse or is this just an opportunity to act and I want to do something else?"/>
        <outline text="I find realizing I need will is often enough to find it"/>
        <outline text="Kind of like intentional programming, don't by default or coincidence"/>
        <outline text="Act with intent, the will to act will come"/>
      </outline>
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    <outline text="Outro" Offset="25:21">
      <outline text="Contact me">
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