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the art of deciding what gets to ruin your day first.
means ranking tasks by importance and urgency so you work on what matters instead of what's loudest.
from from latin prior meaning earlier or first, borrowed into management-speak once everyone realized todo lists don't sort themselves.
eisenhower matrixsorts tasks by urgent versus important, invented by a president
false urgencymost fires you fight aren't actually fires
paradoxdeciding priorities often outranks doing the work itself