Discardia_ More Life, Less Stuff - Dinah Sanders [106]
Outbound trains. Receptacles for things that should leave your home—trash, recycling, donations, etc.—and that you always want to have ready to receive more passengers (Symptom #1)
Precuperate. The act of preparing in advance to make yourself more relaxed after future activities (Symptom #24)
Procrastaproductivity. Technique of getting many less important things done while avoiding the big, scary thing at the top of your to-do list (Symptom #6)
Scenario planning. Preparation technique for expected outcomes as well as other possible conditions (Symptom #34)
Shiny Buckets. A way of envisioning the emotional commitments of our priorities as a physical load and monitoring if we are overloading ourselves (Symptom #9)
Stupid simple filing. Putting almost all of the papers you keep in one short stack which you cull when it gets too tall (Symptom #17)
Three Core Principles of Discardia. Decide and Do, Quality over Quantity, and Perpetual Upgrade (“Three Core Principles”)
Three-Column Briefing. A quick sketch technique to identify the What, Why, and How of tasks to be done (Symptom #23)
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