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Ongoing Stack Rank (OSR)

To-do lists are a simple and popular way to organize your work, but they have a fatal flaw. The essential
gets mixed in with the merely urgent or the genuinely trivial. When you're dreading writing that sales
email, it can be tempting to just move down your list and check off "pick up dry cleaning" instead. You
accomplished a to-do list item, but did you really advance your work?

What you need is not just a list of things you need to get done sometime, but also a system that shows
you what you should be prioritizing now. That's what Wolfson's "Ongoing Stack Rank" is designed to
accomplish. Like a to-do list, an OSR lists "things I'm working on or could be working on over a given time
period," Wolfson explains. But with three key differences:

An OSR lists only outputs, not constituent tasks. "Outputs are defined as shippable units of work,"
Wolfson explains. "Phrasing them as such will also help remind you that you can only check it off once
it's completed. For example, 'hosted dinner for startups' can show up on your list, while 'booked
restaurant for startup dinner' shouldn't."

Include status. Is this in progress? Awaiting approval? Deprioritized until a particular future date? Your
OSR should tell you at a glance.

Ordered by priority. Your OSR should tell you not just what you could be working on, but what you
should work on first.

"Things might move up and down on this list or get added to or removed from it. That's OK! Record it all.
This simplified list will provide clarity when things get especially messy