Prioritization is the communism of attention management
Do or do not. There is no priority.
Once you make a list of things that need doing, and prioritize them according to any metric at all, you can guarantee you will want to do something that’s not in the list at all.
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I have never once in my life actually worked down and through a prioritized list, though I’ve often made them.
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Every prioritized list for me is simple a reverse-neglect order.
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I can only do things in my peripheral vision
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How to hit the bulls eye. Step 1: throw the dart Step 2: paint the bulls eye
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao
This tweet is true, but the dark side is that there are days I fall into the prioritization trap and do zero things instead of 1 thing.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1249913645376524289 …
Venkatesh Rao added,
Venkatesh Rao @vgrI’m a bit like Bender. I can only do 1 thing in a day, big or small. So an easy meeting that takes an hour uses up my day just as much as a 10 hour heavy lift writing an essay. So I’m most productive when I have a series of day-sized things to do. pic.twitter.com/Xt3qDNuYNsShow this thread3 replies 2 retweets 28 likesShow this thread -
Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao
Some days I do end up doing multiple things, but only when I’m being driven by other people’s priorities. And then it wipes me out. Left to my own devices I’m on the 1 thing/day plan.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1279258375088271360 …
Venkatesh Rao added,
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Replying to @vgr
If you job makes you do multiple things in a day, you're often multi-tasking bullshit-work.
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Replying to @BillSeitz @vgr
Do you MostImportantTask first. Then chill. http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/MostImportantTask …
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If I know what’s most important I’ll definitely not do it
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