The Three-body Problem， and planning

Ha, these 2 things are distant from each other. Sorry I pull them together here 😅.

📘'Three-body' is a science fiction which encapsulates the whole human civilisation development into something trivia against the universe.

Like a dark fable, the grey and dark sides of humanity were made so clear as Universal Axioms. Meanwhile, the author still cherishes hope for humans and pays a tribute to small as human’s effort to survive (and to live better).

The author who is amazingly knowledgeable puts in a gaming context and in the storyline itself, how scientific streams work together for the good of civilisation and evolution.

One of the striking plots (many genius ones there), is how ‘John von Neumann’ in the 3-body game, set up a ‘human computer‘ with Qing Dynasty’s troops, in a effort to work out the 3 suns' moving rules concerning the earth. The complex computation were ‘programmed’ based on simple white/red lights (0s and 1s) that can be executed by any soldier.

To land a strategy, an idea, or a big goal, we always need to break them down to make things actually happen.

While breaking them down, doesn’t necessarily mean final success, the latter requires a lot more. It’s a necessary process towards it, esp when ideal conditions are not available.

📃 People were asking me how to better use the Camel digital planner.

The key structure of it is a platform you can utilise for breaking down 2023’s goal(s) to Quarterly —> Monthly —> Daily actions.

1️⃣ Year Vision

There are couple of pages for the Year Vision section, each of slightly different format.

• A company development chart, or

• Vision images - say you want to get fitter in 2023, you may put a role model’s images, or photoshopped photos of yourself: 🏋🏼?🦹🏼?🏃🏻‍♀️? 😉 ), or

• Wording descriptions

Your creativity could be well beyond the above...

2️⃣ Quarterly /Monthly Planning

To achieve the Year Vision/Goals, it’s common we need to get across many (functional) blocks.

These functional blocks can be mapped out across quarters and months.

3️⃣ Daily actions

Then each block could be broken down into small actions that can be carried out in the days.

Each company’s context could be different. For personal use, people’s living vary too.

I’ll save examples here. Welcome 'offline' discussions on this.

Again, recommend highly 📘The Three-body Problem.

It's full of fictionised realism, knowledge, imagination and inspirations for thought.

The fiction leads us to see the world from a distant and bigger view.

To think, do we use the resources to fix issues like energy shortages, lack of food, and world health problems; to collect people’s power for positive human development- we got so much to deal with upfront;

Or we use the precious resources to do tribal wars, to destroy our current only-one planet/home, and for what good, in the history of the future?