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Each case study takes one real session and shows all of it: the starting list, the comparisons that changed the order, the three that survived, and what happened after. The opening sections are open to read; the detail opens with your email.

  • Solo operator · one working week

    Fourteen open loops, one week, three commitments

    A fourteen-item week run through The Forced Choice: what got kept, what got parked, and what actually happened by Friday.

    Starts with the note: Why your to-do list keeps growing no matter how much you finish

  • Method comparison · one list, two passes

    The same list, scored 1–10 and then forced-ranked

    One list of ten priorities, run twice: once with a rating scale, once with pairwise comparison. The two results disagree in a way worth seeing.

    Starts with the note: Ranking beats rating: why comparing two tasks works better than scoring ten

  • Follow-up · four weeks of parked items

    What happened to everything I didn't pick

    Eleven parked items, tracked for four weeks. Most of them never came back — and that turned out to be the useful finding.

    Starts with the note: What to do with everything you didn't pick

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  • Notes on knowing and doingEssays on why lists grow, why ranking beats rating, and what to do with what you park.
  • The Forced ChoiceRun the free tool: ten priorities in, three out, in about eight minutes.
  • The Forced Choice (full version)Confidence scoring, commitment prompts, saved history and drift reports.
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