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Life feels laggy? Your days are missing indexes, not motivation.

Knowledge workers search more than they decide. Email, chat, and memory become scattered tables with no shared keys. Decisions stall because information lacks clear names, stable locations, and a review cadence. The attention tax appears to be laziness, yet it is schema drift, not character.

Ancient builders trusted plumb lines and measured stones. Proverbs said a house is built by wisdom and established by understanding. Confucius advocated rectifying names so that conduct could align with reality. Monastic communities put tasks into ordered hours to reduce friction. Even the word index derives from Latin indicare, meaning "to point out," while disciplina means "instruction." Across cultures, order served mercy for the mind.

Build relational discipline: identify what repeats, define shared fields, and establish a review rhythm. Clear names and small, standard fields shrink the search space and cut decision latency. A predictable cadence frees working memory and raises trust because information lives where it is expected.

Practice: Three-minute index sprint. Set a 180-second timer. In your notes, create one page: “Index.” Choose one area today, Projects or People. Make three entries. For Projects, write fields: Owner, Next Action, Due, Source link, Last Update. For People, include the following fields: Role, Preferred Channel, Current Topics, and Last Touch. Pin the page for quick access. Use only these fields for today’s status checks.

~~ Cultivate Wisdom ~~

Proverbs 24:3-4, “By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established.”
Confucius, Analects 13.3, on the rectification of names
Risko, E. F., & Gilbert, S. J. (2016). Cognitive offloading. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20(9), 676-688.

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