[If you do tasks in order of priority, you will eventually find yourself in a situation where you have to choose which one to do among multiple tasks that have almost the same priority.
- the cost of making a decision on which to do.
- I wouldn’t say that’s logically true, as long as there’s a clear enough priority order sorting.
- Realistically, it’s not sorted that way.
- Sorting is difficult or too labor intensive - The Intellectual Production of Engineers p.55~
- In GTD, “put everything in a box for now” and then “process from the top of the box” is regarded as a sorted priority and the decision-making cost is erased.
If you’re doing “choose by priority,” you won’t be able to choose when this situation arises.
- It’s not a good way to go about it.
- After all, if this is going to be the decision-making tool in the future, why not just do “the one with the closest deadline” in advance?
Don’t make “do what’s closest to the deadline” a top priority rule.
- Because critical tasks with no deadlines are relegated to daily, detailed, deadline-driven tasks that don’t need to be done right now.
- Select tasks according to their importance, and if they are of equal importance (i.e., it is not clear which is more important), do them in the order of their deadlines.
- Uh, that’s Important Matrix.
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