The pervasive concept of time management is misleading: Time management applies well to machines like computers where scheduling using time-slicing is employed by CPUs, but it does not apply well to humans. There are a lot of techniques that have been developed for people to time manage better; however, like a lot of processes developed, they often overlook the human factor while trying to make things simple.

Humans are directly driven by energy, not time. The happier people are, the more energy they have. It's well-known that people are more productive when they are happy. So we just need happy people, right?

Not quite. High energy often manifests itself as effort and as much as we like to credit effort, it's often not enough. To get stuff done, the energy needs to be focused. It needs to be driven.

It reminds me of a time in grade 9 when my friend asked me how I got such good grades even though clearly I was not any smarter than her. I had answered her at the time, "Our focus is different". Mine was clearly biased more to school work whereas her focus was more generally directed towards socializing. I had also expressed a similar sentiment to a previous co-worker: "Let passion be your fuel, but keep your brains in the driver's seat."

Humans are extremely complex, but I think simplifying humans to a machine is just wrong. I've run myself like a machine for many years and I've realized that the mentality had really put a limit on my full potential as a human being where I could be doing less but accomplishing more. I'm sure the concept would be baffling to some people. It was to me at one time. But it's easier to see once you frame your mind in terms of energy and focusing on the most important things rather than chasing all the minor tasks. Those who can manage their energy most effectively will accomplish more in less time - maybe even with less work and/or less waste.

Our age of self-actualization, finding your passion, and realization of the flawed scientific logic created by humans is already showing signs of people realizing turning ourselves into machines was not what we want to accomplish. It's interesting to see how things change from here where inadequacy of simplifications force us to embrace complexity.

My blog entries have definitely expanded in scope from when I was first planning this blog. The current taxonomy plan looks more like the following:

The taxonomy implemented tags each blog entry with keywords to help cluster the blog entries together for easier reading. This organization is pretty critical since it looks like my blog will contain quite diverse topics.

I've been waiting for reading week! Plans are chalk full with textbook reading and projects. I hope to also get writing some more, including pieces for a novel series that I've been writing randomly for some time now. Over the course of my recent busy schedule, many new ideas have started to brew. I chose the title "Crossroads" last winter when I drafted a super vague summary last winter break. Here it is as follows:

The Setting

The year is 17 A.C. (After Chaos), dated after the mysterious phenomenon, known as the Chaos, that tore apart the world into isolated islands bounded by void boundaries. Communication between world islands ceased to exist. Seventeen years after the Chaos, information regarding the mysterious phenomenon and the void boundaries remain unknown, except that all matter crossing the void boundaries simply disappeared. The world has again become flat.