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redmattredyesterday at 9:32 PM0 repliesview on HN

Venkatesh Rao had this idea about matching the type of work you choose at a given time to the mood state you are currently in (or finding cues to shift yourself into the mood state that best matches the kind of work you need to be doing).

Pick a few personas to develop that match different aspects of your personality and map to different mood states you might be in. Not so much defining roles, but different work styles that you work in. Write prompts for each of them.

Keep a task list your agent has access to. Feed it your personas as well.

Have an agent pick one task and to frame the work through the lens of each of your personas and to ask it to ask you to choose which one you would like to pick.

Schedule it to run each morning and trust your gut with whichever one you pick.

You have now put yourself on the opposite end of the prompt response loop and the agent is prompting you for a response.

You'll be in a flow state in no time.