Every day, we are dealing with a thousand things, overrun by tasks and chores. It can become overwhelming. I’d like to talk about an idea I’ve been working with, called the stateless protocol. It’s meant to reduce the overwhelm and help us to focus and be more present. Stateless Computing for Humans In computing, as I understand it, a program will normally try to remember everything. It keeps track of what you’ve done, where everything is, the state of all kinds of variables. This is fine for a program—computers are pretty good at keeping track of a whole bunch of things. That’s how most of us operate—trying to keep a thousand things in our head, processing new information as it comes in, making a lot of decisions all the time. For humans, who aren’t adapted to do this kind of processing, it can be stressful and overwhelming. Another kind of …