Tasks that have to be loaded up in your head have higher activation energy.
- Tasks that have to be loaded up in your head have higher activation energy.
- A given task and its background information has a half-life.
- It slowly evaporates from your head when you don't use it.
- That implies that when you have a task, you have two plausible times to do it:
- 1) Right now, while it's fresh and before it fades from your head.
- 2) In the future when some external discontinuity (e.g. a deadline) forces you to.
- Other than that, the task will just get kicked down the road, increasing in activation energy until either it falls off your radar forever or some discontinuity requires it.