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What Is Already Taking Capacity?
Making continuous, invisible load visible — so something can be done about it.
A keep-close version. Read it here, or screenshot this page to have it on your phone — print and PDF copies will appear once final files are attached.
Some demand doesn't arrive as events — it just runs, quietly, all the time. This is an inventory of the background load: the open loops, the worries on repeat, the sensory hum. Naming it is often the cheapest capacity gain available.
Cognitive loops — the half-open things on my mind
- A form or admin task, unstarted
- A conversation I'm putting off
- A decision floating with no date
- A plan that keeps slipping forward
Emotional background
- A worry on repeat
- A tense or unresolved relationship
- The quiet calculation of whether I'm 'managing'
Sensory background
- Light, noise, or screens at the wrong level
- Clutter in the room where I rest
- Other people's movement and activity around me
- Discomfort I'm pushing along — temperature, pain, clothing
Which one is costing the most right now?
Not the biggest on paper — the one that's actually running today.
The one move that shrinks it
Often the move is small: write it down, lower the setting, say the sentence, hand it over.
My move
e.g. Write the appointment worry on the card, and let the card hold it
A day with 'nothing in it' can still be full — and that was never self-blame's business. Background load is load. It was never nothing.