Not all tasks have equal leverage. Some move things forward, some are neutral and need to happen without creating momentum, and some are overhead that generates activity without return. Most people default to clearing the easy things first, which means clearing overhead while the high-leverage work sits untouched. Naming the category before you start changes how much attention you give to what you’re about to do.
[[Do less]] is the natural conclusion of applying this consistently: once you see how much of the list is overhead, the case for removing it becomes hard to ignore. [[Building a boring task list]] built around the leverage category compounds over time in a way that urgency-only prioritisation never does, because leverage tasks prevent larger failures rather than respond to them. [[Focus on outcome, not output]] is the frame that makes this distinction meaningful.