The brain notices sharp changes and misses the gradual ones. You see the gap only once the main thing is already in the background.
The method sees what you're actually doing — from your calendar, your messages, your writing, your wearables — and compares it against what you call the main thing. On its own, without you asking. The decisions stay yours.
01.ACORE · 5 TERMS
Unified: inner and outer aren't split apart. Observable across many channels: behavior, speech, artifacts, physiology, self-report, events in your environment.
It has no end state — it's about how to live, not about a result. «Be close to the people who matter», «grow professionally». Recognizable at any moment: «am I in it right now?» — yes or no.
«Defend the dissertation by June», «ship v4 of the platform». Days, weeks, months — but the end point is known.
Only one Locus is active at a time. Attention doesn't split across two places — what looks like parallel work turns out, on closer inspection, to be fast switching.
Not an object and not an operation — the connection that lights that point up. Unobservable in itself; it shows up in the properties of the Locus.
01.BEXTENSIONS · 4 TERMS
Health, Relationships, Work, Capital, Growth, Home, Rest, Social. A frame for review: are all the ones that matter getting attention, has any of them atrophied.
Not milestones — recognized qualitatively: a state where you can say «I'm here now».
Entries are recorded when the observation channels agree enough. Gaps are normal, not a bug: silence can mean no work was done, or just too little visibility in the moment.
Positive reinforces (work on your Work grows Capital through revenue and relationships). Negative wears you down (the same work wears down Health through lost sleep).
When a certain pattern forms in the History of Loci, the method raises a signal. One episode of low alignment is normal; a repeating one is a signal. Each comes with an explicit measure of confidence: the more entries fit the pattern, the stronger the signal.
INTERPRETATION — YOURS TO MAKE
Persistent drift can mean the framing of the Focus is out of date and it's time to rewrite it. Or that your environment is cutting off access to the work. Or that you're avoiding something specific inside the task. The method shows the pattern — the choice is yours.
INTERPRETATION — YOURS TO MAKE
The work is buzzing, but not in the right direction. Maybe the Direction is framed too abstractly to help you pick Focuses. Maybe the Direction has changed, but the wording is still the old one.
INTERPRETATION — YOURS TO MAKE
Blur can mean the commitment is in a scouting phase and certainty isn't due yet. Or that it's framed at too high a level of abstraction and needs breaking down.
INTERPRETATION — YOURS TO MAKE
Fading can mean the commitment has naturally run its course and can be closed. Or that something more urgent is crowding it out — and you need to either bring it back or honestly let it go.
INTERPRETATION — YOURS TO MAKE
Based on Cowan (2001) on the limit of working memory. Spreading across Focuses isn't bad in itself — but it forces a decision: what to close, what to freeze, what to keep. The method points out that the ceiling's been crossed; it doesn't choose for you.
INTERPRETATION — YOURS TO MAKE
The work moves, but keeps breaking off halfway. Can mean your time blocks aren't big enough, a prioritization problem inside the Focus, or that the Projections are competing with each other and need to be put in sequence.
INTERPRETATION — YOURS TO MAKE
The strongest signal in the system. Most often Health, the people close to you, or Growth, against a backdrop of prolonged Tunneling into Work. A Sphere can be brought back into view gradually; the method neither rushes nor panics — it records the fact and holds the context.
A signal doesn't mean a problem. Persistent drift can mean the framing is out of date. Fading — that a commitment has naturally run its course. Blur — that a commitment is in a scouting phase. The interpretation is yours.
Routing the incoming stream, capturing the vivid entries, short nudges of attention. The surface you meet every day.
Checking intention against behavior. The method lays out the picture of the week: where the entries were, how the Locus moved, which signals fired. You interpret, decide, and frame the week ahead.
A review of commitments, Spheres, and your relationship with the method. Rewording the framings, checking Sphere coverage, auditing the agent's work.
Cognitive delegation has a price. When an agent takes over the decisions, within a few weeks a person forgets how to decide on their own. The method is deliberately limited in what it does for you.
Time is a container; what's inside it is personal. The method looks at where your energy actually goes.
It tracks commitments, spots patterns, holds context between interactions. The interpretation and the choice stay yours.
The agent carries the cognitive bookkeeping: tracking, monitoring, surfacing patterns. Not the decisions.
Every productivity system takes energy to maintain — the very energy it's supposed to protect. Here the agent carries all of that load.
The brain automates any fixed form within days. Each time the method reaches out, it takes a fresh act of interpretation — semantic friction instead of procedural. That's on purpose.
Behind every signal and algorithm sits foundational research on how the perceptual system loses focus and gets it back.
The conceptual layer — the axioms, the design principles, the ontology of attention, the boundary of responsibility — is open on GitHub under Creative Commons BY 4.0: read it, cite it, build on top of it — as long as you keep attribution. The operational layer — signal calibration, how the detectors are built, eval — stays Vector's implementation.
