1. Denis Harscoat
Co-Founder CEO
@harscoat
http://didth.is/user/dens
denis@quantter.com
Action logging
“Where the Action is!”
Show&Tell - Nov26
Saturday, November 26, 2011

2. Write a book
Experiment 1 - 2005/06
Saturday, November 26, 2011

3. * 1 500 caracters no space/ day
* 7 500 /weeks
* for 600 000 caracters
* 200 pages in my own format
* around 300 pages of normal book
How
Saturday, November 26, 2011

4. * Stopped at around 100 000 caracters
X
* Took me 1.5 years
* Positive/negative:
A/ At least I started (actually I wrote a pla
in between)
B/ I am not gifted, I suck
* used a spreadsheet (excel pain)
* Nobody ‘around me’ cared
I learnt
Saturday, November 26, 2011

5. Inspired by:
* 10 000 hours rule
* Deliberate practice
Restart:
* “Just put in the numbers”
Experiment 2 - 2008/09
Saturday, November 26, 2011

6. Email together with a friend
who wanted to write ideas every morning for a PhD
* sending emails every morning together
(spreadsheet + Emails)
* Logging the time spent
and the output
How
Saturday, November 26, 2011

7. * The “cheering up”/social constraint worked for me
* 100 000 caracters in 4 months
* see the others SpreadSheet
* When friend not available (trip etc.) I slacked.
* more an enterpreneur than a writter?
* About the “total numbers” produced by methods (regularity)
I learnt
Saturday, November 26, 2011

8. Build a Self Tracking tool
Experiment 3 - 25 dec 10/June 11
Saturday, November 26, 2011

9. kinda Twitter for Numbers
#Hashtag:123unit
How: Twitter syntax
Saturday, November 26, 2011

10. The Tool
Saturday, November 26, 2011

11. Learnt
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12. τα εφ ’ηιµιν
Focus on “What’s up to me”
τα ουκ εφ ’ηιµιν
“What’s NOT up to me” = “indifferent”
Actions !
Saturday, November 26, 2011

13. * Tacit contract with others
* It is not about the numbers, it is about regularity of
practice
* It is not about health for me but about Fruitfulness
the numbers of other numbers my own number would
have inspired triggered.
Learnt
Saturday, November 26, 2011

14. Exp 4: DidThis - iPhone app
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Saturday, November 26, 2011

15. * Interested in a method
to copy/Paste successful
Methods of actions
* Writing is telling Story
to someone:
I realized for me the
numbers are not about
learning, they are about
communicating to
others how much I care.
Eg. I wrote every day
inspired by you
Learnt up to exp 4.
Saturday, November 26, 2011

16. THANKS:1 :-)
Action logging
“Where the Action is!”
Denis Harscoat
denis@quantter.com
@harscoat
http://didth.is/user/dens
Lkg for your feedback on Exp. 4
Saturday, November 26, 2011