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Re:Three Things by cjf4 on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @02:16PM (#7599482)
What a pedantic article. The effectiveness of to do lists, or any other work management tool, is extremely sensitive to both the nature of the work and the nature of the person.

Some people can be effective thinking about 3 things all day? Great. I envy them. I'm not one of them. To do lists help me minimize the transition time after I finish something and quickly prioritize. But that's not everyone. I'm sure there are others best served by thinking about 3 things.

But to pretend that this method or any other is best for everyone is childish.

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Re:Three Things by logfromblammo on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @02:53PM (#7599733)
Also, when I imagined him slapping the thing onto pillows, I imagined that the screen cracked anyway. What a jerk. He should have asked me to imagine one of those stunt man long fall air bags. I also imagined that I used a nice tablet computer instead of an ordinary notepad, but that can't be helped. My imagination likes nice things.

For me, keeping even as few as 3 things in my head all day instead of writing them down is needlessly tying up 3 mental registers that could be used to speed up the thing I am doing right now.

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