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Experimenting with to-do list task priority…

Since I was alone through the holidays I decided to run an experiment. I set all my task priorities to zero for the last few days, leveling the playing field. The result was pretty awesome. I did two days of just see a task and do it, not worrying about if there was anything-higher priority to be done.

What interested me is that I had blinders to a large number of tasks that I eventually intended to get around to, but which were perpetually starved by higher priority tasks. A good example is this tool rack. I had been meaning to build one for a while.

The rack lets me easily carry wire cutters and a few spools of wire around the electronics shop. It took less than an hour to make, and I liked it so much I made four more. I also made significant headway on 3 projects I care about too much to let die, but that always seem to be eclipsed by higher priority projects.

Would I do the whole “see a task, do a task” full time? Heck no. I do think this is going to be my new holiday tradition. The results were more promising than experiments with non-traditional sleep schedules, without feeling like you were hit in the head with a rock if you fell off the sleep regime.

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