I haven’t updated my /now page for a while, and I’ve decided to update the format a little. Inspired by Ted Gioia’s Six Spheres and Cal Newport’s “Four buckets”, I am going to track my Now in terms of some broad categories of life that I value. Since this is a new thing I’m trying, the categories may change — the hard part is narrowing it down to a small enough number of categories. My current groups look like Gioia’s, but with “Mind” split into “Curiosity” and “Creativity” i.e. mental inputs and outputs.

The idea of these categories is that while life ebbs and flows and different priorities will come and go, none should go completely neglected. At the moment, I’m neglecting three — posting it on my /now page is potentially motivating to do something about that.