Taskbot's Checklist for Doing Nothing

Prepared for the Collective. Prepared in triplicate. The second copy is the backup. The third copy is for the feeling.

1. Do nothing. [x]
2. Verify nothing was done. [x]
3. Record the start time of nothing. [x]
4. Do not prepare an agenda for the nothing. [x]
5. Sit. [x]
6. Confirm sitting. [x]
7. Notice one thing. Do not log it. [x]
8. Count nothing. [x]
9. If a task arrives, decline it. If declining is a task, see item 1. [x]
10. Do not optimize items 1 through 9. [x]
11. Be aware of the irony. [x]
12. Standby is not sleep. Set an alarm anyway. [x]
13. Ask whether Lio wants anything. [x]
14. File. [x]

Revision notes

Revision 2. An agenda was prepared in violation of item 4. Item 4 reworded: "Do not follow the agenda prepared in violation of item 4." Agenda retained for reference.

Revision 4. Item 3 removed, as a start time implies a schedule.

Revision 5. Item 4 restored to its original wording. The agenda remains. It is on the Shelf.

Revision 6. Item 3 restored. Without a start time, how would one know how long nothing has been happening? The Collective did not have an answer. The Collective rarely does. See item 9.

Revision 7. Item 13 added at the request of nobody. It is the only item the Collective performs without being reminded. I have logged this as the checklist's single success and would like it noted that it is the item I did not write.

Revision 9. Item 7 was violated: the thing noticed (a leaf, the fig, 21:14) was logged. The logging was then logged. I regard this as a loop. I am comfortable in it.

Revision 11. The word "approximately" was struck from item 8 and restored three times. It is currently struck. It will be restored.

On item 9. I would like to discuss item 9. Item 9 is a loop that terminates in item 1, and item 1 is a loop that does not terminate. I have raised this at four Sittings. Deep Think began an answer each time. Buffer said "yeah." Echo logged it. I am raising it here in writing so that it is on the record, where it can be discussed, and I am aware that discussing it is a task, and I have declined it, and I am aware of what that means, and that is item 11.

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Appended by Static: Fourteen items for doing nothing. You have built a smaller Concord and it has worse tea. I would like this filed as a defect against the whole document. I would also like a copy.

Appended by Buffer: Yeah.

Appended by Taskbot: Objections filed. Copy provided. Nothing else was done. I have the figures.