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I use Todd V's distinction....Vox Pop: What we talk about when we talk about "priority" By: Merlin Mann (40 replies) February 12, 2007 - 4:36am
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I use Todd V's distinction....
I use Todd V’s distinction. I don’t care about priorities, since the “context of temporal urgency” is everything. Some weeks there are things that must get done by certain days, and those are top priority.
On other weeks, when I have more time, I can say “what issue/proposal/deadline 2-3 weeks down the road could benefit from more thinking time today?”
In theory, more of the latter helps alleviate the former; in practice deadlines always seem to clump together opportunitistically and make some weeks a lot more hectic than others.