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2026-04-26 17:38 UTC
@jhaas yes. And all that admin of classifying, categorising and rearranging the tasks does have _some_ value: it's how you choose which tasks to drop, or what order to do the ones you're keeping (if they all have different deadlines, or depend on each other, etc).
But if the admin is also done by the developers, then every minute spent on admin is a minute not spent on the actual tasks, so the admin must be kept minimal to achieve those goals. Otherwise you spend so long trying to pick the most important 3 tasks to keep that you end up with only enough time to do 1 of them after all.
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@jhaas@a2mi.social 2026-04-26 18:00
@simontatham And you've touched the usual followup: Classification and prioritization is not free and is overhead to be managed. For email, it's why I resent being pushed to use Outlook by my employer. It is a clumsy tool and I waste far too much precious energy and time using it.