· 6 min read
How to choose between two good options
When neither choice is wrong, waiting for certainty is the only losing move. Six small comparisons beat one impossible one.
Paired case study: Two good options, eleven days, one afternoon to decide
Notes
Notes on knowing and doing
Short essays about deciding, not about productivity systems. Each one ends in a case study — a real session run start to finish — and each case study ends in the tool.
· 6 min read
Why your to-do list keeps growing no matter how much you finish
A to-do list that only ever grows isn't a discipline problem. It's a design problem: nothing in the system is allowed to say no.
Paired case study: Fourteen open loops, one week, three commitments
· 7 min read
Ranking beats rating: why comparing two tasks works better than scoring ten
Scoring tasks out of ten feels precise and produces ties. Comparing two at a time feels crude and produces a decision. Here's why the crude method wins.
Paired case study: The same list, scored 1–10 and then forced-ranked
· 6 min read
What to do with everything you didn't pick
Cutting a list to three is easy. Living with the other eleven is the part nobody teaches. A parked list, and a rule for closing things out.
Paired case study: What happened to everything I didn't pick