Your Most Important Work Probably Isn't on Your Task List

The Problem With Task Lists Is That They Only Hold What You Already Know Your task list is a record of decisions that have already been made. Someone identified a problem, broke it into steps, and wrote those steps down. The list is the output of thinking, not the thinking itself. This is fine for most operational work. If you&rsquo;re shipping a feature, onboarding a client, or preparing a…