Your To-Do List Is Built to Grow, Not to Shrink

The Inbox Problem, Reframed Think about the last time you felt good about your to-do list. Chances are, it was the moment you finished adding everything to it, not the moment you finished doing everything on it. That feeling has a name in behavioral economics: completion bias toward low-effort tasks. And your task manager is almost certainly designed to exploit it. The core problem is…