Notes
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
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
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
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