"Intentional Living: Cultivating Purpose and Progress"
Feb 2, 2024 - 1:51pmSummary: The text outlines intentions that the author wishes to refine and track with assistance from a language model or a similar system. The goals include cooking more to save money and waste less food, improving meal planning with personalized menu suggestions, and learning practical skills such as bolt highline and climbing anchor techniques. Additionally, the author aspires to maintain a regular workout routine, travel monthly, keep a clean house, and establish a meditation practice. Each intention is accompanied by specific "how" actions, desired outcomes, and measurements for tracking progress, suggesting a thoughtful and structured approach to personal development.Text
intentions
one note about looking at all these intentions is that there are degrees of them. one’s that are immediately actionable, and others which are more fuzzy. need refinement. maybe I don’t even know where to begin on those. curious that. maybe this is part of the setup process with the intentions ‘app’. conversation -> action on the LLM part. it can build a plan and you sign off on it? have a conversation with me as well as it’s helping. it’s not all magic. dont try to make it be that either. i want a menu, but its a draft that i will co-create with the LLM. Will want to give it feedback to take into account for the future as well. I guess this is the conversational aspect of it
Individual experience design
the questions how and what can be collapsed?
cook more
note: what’s interesting about this intention, is it doesn’t have to do with cooking more for me. it actually is entirely around food. it is the way i want to relate to food.
big (without AR)
why : I want to spend less money eating out, I also would like to spend less time driving to eat out. Often times eating out for me means “fast food” in some way. I would really like to be eating at nicer places when I do go out, and I would like that to be with friends. In addition I’d like to be exposed to new cuisines generally speaking, both when eating out and cooking at home. I also want to reduce food waste when I do cook. I often buy too much food, or just don’t know how to use it and some of it ends up going to waste.
how (i want/need help): I am not good at planning my meals for the week, or going out spontaneously to get ingredients for a meal. Taking into account my schedule, I want help making a menu for the week based on my food preferences. For determining my food preferences take into account places I go out to eat as well as things I tend to cook already. Please recommend cookbooks I could buy, or give to you which might suit my tastes. This could help plan the menu and keep the menu fresh and interesting. Ideally each meal in the menu will take between 30min-1hr to prepare. I’d like to review this menu with you, so let’s have a conversation about it. After the menu is finalized, please build me a grocery list and what stores would be best to get each item from. Keep track of when I visit the grocery store, so that you will know how old each item is. Also keep track of long term vs short term items (for example rice vs milk). I would like you to check in on me asking what I had for breakfast, lunch and dinner (how much does a gf help? hahahahah, perhaps even with gf this would be helpful, takes into account both of us). Also keep track of when I go out to eat. If a pattern of going out to eat develops, check in on me. I also would like to tell you if there are any ingredients left over after cooking each meal. Please remind me to tell you. I want you to know so that you can help me
small
why: I want to spend less money on food and less time driving to eat out. I also want to generally be eating healthier, which cooking may help. Often times eating out for me means eating “fast food” which I would like to generally avoid.
how (i want help): I want help making a menu for each week based on my food preferences which I’ve told you and what cookbook recipes I’ve given you. The menu will consist of just what meals/dishes need to be cooked. We will talk and agree on the final menu. After that please tell me what ingredients I need to buy. When it comes time to cook, I will ask for the recipe
what (to measure/look for/ask me about/i want to see): I want you to check in on me daily for what I am eating. I will let you know if I went out to eat and with whom, but if not specified, I will tell you what meal I had from the menu (or something different, if I made something different). At the end of the week (Sunday) I want a statistic telling me the number of meals I ate at home, compared to the number of meals I had in total.
learn how to bolt highline and climbing anchors
note: this is really about the way that I wish to show up in the world and contribute.
workout 5 days a week
note: this is really about
go on a trip for 2+ days once a month
keep a clean house
meditate for 15 minutes, 4 days a week
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