Jon Mick (@jonmick): "Anri's so good with seeing, naming, and describing this space. The 'totalizing move' too I've been designing at a different elevation. PARA is Tiago Forte's classic productivity framework: Projects, Areas, Resources, Archives. The Areas/Resources layer is genuinely cognitive-st…"

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Anri's so good with seeing, naming, and describing this space. The 'totalizing move' too

I've been designing at a different elevation. PARA is Tiago Forte's classic productivity framework: Projects, Areas, Resources, Archives. The Areas/Resources layer is genuinely cognitive-style-agnostic. The Projects layer, though, assumes work has bounded shapes with clear start and end states, which breaks for constellation-thinking minds (ADHD, 2e, etc) whose work moves as trajectories across containers, never as projects within them.

This issue with PARA error is your “totalizing move”. The Projects layer is a decisional/temporal construct doing trajectory-recognition work it wasn’t shaped for. So I keep the container layer and swap only the temporal layer for what I call filaments (from the celestial concept): cross-domain trajectories re-recognized fresh, not stored as frozen artifacts.

Same structural discipline you're naming, practiced a few rungs further down-stack. Thanks for sharing your vocabulary for it as you see it!

Anri NΞX

Apr 30

Many people are creating frameworks right now, which is great. We need more bottom-up movement.

At the same time, frameworks tend to expand beyond their native layer. When that happens, distinctions collapse and nuance gets lost.

My own work sits mostly at the ontological and perceptual layers. I’m not trying to apply it everywhere－ I’m refining it where it actually operates.

May 2

4:32 PM

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