The Tropes Collection

Tropes defines the various Sri-isms and made-up “terms of art” I use: named principles, hypotheses, and factoids about my specific quirks. You can get an idea of how I think by looking through them.

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all trope entries

main category for turns of phrase I use frequently
A
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Accrual Log
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Adventurous Creativity
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All the Animals are Friends!
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Alone with People
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Asymmetric Productivity Doctrine
C
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Chronos and Kairos
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Concrete Deliverable
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Consuming versus Creating
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Continuity Log
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Conversational Project Scoping
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Creative Independence
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Creative Interdependence
D
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Difficulty vs Uncertainty
E
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ELBS versus ASAP
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Emergent Productivity
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Explore Learn Build Share (ELBS)
F
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Factory-Style Productivity
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Failure as Data
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Fear of Leaving Out (FOLO)
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Fear of Losing Information (FOLI)
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Fifteen Minute Blocks
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Frustrated Creative
G
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Gathering Style Productivity
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GHDR Overgoal
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Growing the Pie
H
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Happy Bubble Time
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Head Canon
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Hermit Mode
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Hyperplexic Communication
I
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Ideas are Cheap
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If You Knew the Answer, What Would It Be?
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Induced Curiosity
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Intentfulness
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Introverted Intuitive (INXX)
K
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Kits
L
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Logic Driven by Emotion
M
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Maker Mindset versus Manager Mindset
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Mastery
N
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Naming Demons
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Narrative-Driven Design
O
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Operational Experiments
P
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Patterns vs Principles
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Pickle Jar
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Practical Magic
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Predominantly Prosocially Motivated Profile (PPMP)
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Predominantly-Prosocial Motivation Profile (PPM)
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Primers
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Project Vessel
R
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Relentless Productivity
S
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Seeds
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Seeds, Primers, and Kits
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Singular (Intentional) Focus
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Slow is Smooth and Smooth is Fast
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Soundboarding / Rubber ducking
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Sri's "Investigative Design" Process
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Sri's "Scientific Creative Method"
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Strategic Horizons
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Strategic Piles
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Stream of Consciousness (SOC) Log
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Structured Procrastination
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Superlative Experience
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Synthesis
T
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The Colony (WIP)
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The Crushing Tree
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The Dreamlike Now
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The Four Agreements
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The Karmic Boomerang
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The Little Red Hen
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The Meadow
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The Outpost
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The Public Square
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The Third Place
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The Tribe
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The Tribe (Context)
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The Universe
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The Universe Can Not React Unless You Put Something Into It
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The Zone
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Time Blindness
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Tool: Concrete Goals Tracker (CGT)
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Trickle-Down Energy Model
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Two By Two Tasking Model
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Two Minute Tasks"
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Two Slots + Aux Model
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Two-fer
V
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Values-First Productivity
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Virtual Coworking
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Visceral Immediacy
W
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What is a 'Task' in the Sri-verse?
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Work as Narrative