On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm imagining someone whose "todo" queue is growing linearly while their > "done" pile eternally remains empty. It seems odd that new higher-priority > work would be coming in so fast that not only can the old work not get done > first, but the new work can't either. > The problem for me comes from ruthless prioritization vs. dealing with new small inbox issues in the moment. I'm sure I read some advice to do the latter instead of the overhead of managing an enormous growing pile of postponed work. Especially with documentation, tagging yet another mail thread "ought to document this nugget some day" vs. spending just-a-little-bit more time getting it done here and now. The problems are a) If there are too many small things you can get done in the moment, then those moments take over your day. b) Hoftstadter's Law [1]. I guess the answer is to budget your time better. Thanks for any advice, though I don't expect any because answering this is not in your quarterly goals or current sprint :-). [1] "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter's_law -- =S Page WMF Tech writer
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