Repeatable practices: what they do, what goes in, what comes out, and a worked example.
A practice
Cyber banishing
Close a working with a digital gesture: close tabs, clear a cache, log out, leave the desk.
What it is
To make the end of a working as deliberate as the beginning.
At a glance
- Inputs
- The working; its tabs/accounts; a closing line; a ledger.
- Outputs
- A closed session, a cleared state and a close line.
How to do it
Name the working. Close every tab, window or account used for it. Clear the namespaced storage or cache. Write the close line. Do something ordinary for ten minutes. Do not reopen the working until the next scheduled session.
A worked example
The 'application' working uses a browser window and a storage key. At the close, the switch closes the window, removes the key, logs the close and opens a blank page.
Variations
- Make the close physical: a switch, a card, a drawer.
- Close every working, not only the big ones.
- Use a group close at the end of a shared session.
Related entries
Instruments
Protocols
Correspondences
Workings
Related
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Every entry that names Cyber banishing, grouped by section.
⌘ Protocols 3
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- Dismiss a servitor Practices
- Digital banishing Practices
⌬ Correspondences 3
- Mars — firewall Practices
- The Tower — crash Practices
- Tuesday — Mars Practices
⚙ Instruments 2
- The Digital Banishing Switch Practices
- The Random Rite Generator Practices
✧ Practices 2
- Dismissing a construct Related
- Digital altar Related
❖ Workings 1
- The Mars Firewall Ward Practices
▤ Glossary 1
- Banishing Related
⌁ Currents 1
- Chaos magic Practices
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New entries, when they land
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