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    I ran across the idea of using moon phases as triggers to get things done. It has really stuck with me. It's one of those plain as the nose on your face level ideas. When you buy a daily planner or use a digital calendar, there is usually a moon phase in there or easy to add. It is cyclical.

    Just for fun, I asked an AI to assist me with organizing my to-do system but align it with the moon. It gave me a lot of ideas to play around with in the future. There was one idea that made me point at the screen and say, "That rules!"

    It told me to use the moon phase icons on my projects . That is genius. That is taking an icon and using it at full power. I can tell I love the idea because I had to rush to blog about it.

    Here is what it suggested:

    ๐ŸŒ‘ New Moon: Planning, starting new projects
    ๐ŸŒ“ First Quarter: Action, building momentum
    ๐ŸŒ• Full Moon: Completion, evaluation
    ๐ŸŒ— Last Quarter: Reflection, clearing

    It could be a Kanban . It can be done with a .txt file. It can be done in an app. It can be done with paper. The actual moon could be a trigger for project review.

    Oh look...today is the new moon, I should review all projects in planning phase.

    I am stoked to start implementing this. Project organization is not my most favorite, so anything to make it easier to do, easier to understand, and kind of fun rules.

    : If this is an idea from someone somewhere, let me know so I can credit them here.
    : Kanban is pronounced kahn-bah. Full stop.

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    Found myself at the keyboard, kind of void. I think it is because I like writing about minutiae, but there are a lot of enormous things happening. Me choosing my next pencil compared to global economic upheaval is a proton-level tiny thing.

    That proton-level tiny action is what I need to do to start the ball moving at all. Doing the particle-level things gets me to the atom-level things and so on.

    I am at the end of the pencil I have been using. It is an F, as in hardness, not failing grade. It is the center point between an H and B pencil, so it is the Goldilocks pencil. Not too hard and not too soft. They seem to last a little longer than a pencil on the B side of the scale.

    They have a nice "scritch" level, meaning there is a little friction when you write on the paper. You get a sizzle sound while you write, which I am into.

    For the next pencil, I am wavering between a carpenter pencil or a really soft B pencil. The large shape of a carpenter pencil is so satisfying for a drummer, I think. After an F pencil, a 6B would feel like writing with a Sharpie. Still deciding.

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