Wrestling with the Angel of Death

Clive Thompson and the dead-end of task management.

In Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t, Clive Thompson finds a lot wrong with how we approach task/work management, but he simply accepts a lot of preconceptions without really examining them, I feel.

The most fundamental preconception -- never examined by Thompson at all -- is the binary nature of tasks in nearly all task management to…