Making own world
PoIC’s principle is extremely simple: Use four card to express inside/outside of us, stack them chronologically and, reuse them later. That’s all.
I write PoIC manual as I use it as discovery database. Because that the only thing I can do. However, the principle may not limit usage of PoIC for user. So some may use as GTD processing system, and some may use as reference system.
PoIC is generic because of it’s simplicity. It fits for anybody, but there is no “average” person. So user must modify and customize PoIC as it fit for own life, with keeping the principle. For example, there are four possible cards, Record, Discovery, GTD, and Reference. When I optimize PoIC suit for me, the Discovery Card become dominant.
What I have done in PoIC manual is only half. You have to build up the other half by yourself. You may ask how to build. The answer is already in your hand. Use PoIC. If PoIC doesn’t fit for you, you must ask yourself why? How to solve it? How to make it better? Write your idea on Discovery Card. In fact, PoIC is developed by using PoIC like that way.
This proposition will be a good exercise especially for PoIC beginner. When you got your own PoIC, congratulations! Then you can build up your productive/creative system/method on the solid basis of your own PoIC.
Recently, I read Paul Graham’s “Hackers and Painters“, and am very impressed. Programming, painting, PoIC, they are essentially same: making own world.
