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Notes from the tunnel
Short pieces on focus, deciding under pressure, and the design calls behind a decide-and-execute engine.
The won't-do list: deciding out loud that you are not doing it
A lot of a long-lived to-do list is work its owner already knows they will never do. Leaving it there has a cost. Here is the case for deciding, on purpose, to drop it.
ReadBody doubling works. The hard part is finding a body.
Body doubling is one of the few focus techniques people actually swear by. Here is what is really doing the work in it, and how much of that you can get without another person in the room.
ReadYour to-do list is a pile of open questions
A to-do list looks like a plan, but every item on it is an unanswered question about what to do next. That is why opening it makes it harder to start.
ReadSubtasks should be a checklist, not tasks inside tasks
Most task apps let a subtask grow into a full task with its own due date and priority. Here is why Tunl Focus keeps a subtask a flat checklist.
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