Mind · Strategy
Prioritize
Ordering tasks by importance and urgency
Definition
Mechanism
Impact-Effort Ranking: List all options. Score each on impact (Value if done) and effort (cost to do). Compute ratio. Sort by ratio descending. Work top-down. Re-score periodically as information changes. Pareto principle: 20% of Work yields 80% of Value. It applies Rank to the candidate set based on an Impact/Effort ratio.
Preconditions
- Items are comparable
Postconditions
- Set ordered
Invariants
- Completeness: output contains every input item.
- Ordering: sorted by descending impact-to-effort ratio.
Risks
Failure modes
Relationships
Builds on
Composes with
Infrastructure
Order items by score
Used by
References
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Postponing decisions until more information available
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Guard against effort spread over so many directions that none advances
Systematic categorization of ignorance
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