“Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar.” NeedsAcceptingHabitDegreesPerfectionTasksBarsRelyRealisticAssessmentProcrastinatingTriage Author:John Perry
“I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.” WritingYearsIdeasMy OwnNovelMonthsImpulseTriage Author:Charles Stross
“Soon after a disaster passes, we tend to turn our eyes away and focus our resources on the day-to-day, rather than on preparing for the rare, but foreseeable and potentially catastrophic disaster. It's another form of triage, how much we invest in preparing for that, a very important question for public policy. We are a short-sighted species.” ImportantEyeFormTurnsFocusPolicyResourcesSpeciesDisasterDay To DayPreparingPublic PolicyImportant QuestionsShort SightedTriage Author:Sheri Fink
“Reporters are not merely recording devices that take down what people say and repeat it in print; we are expected to use our knowledge and experience both for triage - deciding what's important to cover and what isn't - and for contextualizing, analyzing and such.” PeopleImportantUseExpectedRepeatsDevicesPrintReportersWhat's ImportantAnalyzingKnowledge And ExperienceTriage Author:Gene Weingarten
“We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.” HumansDifferentRealChoicesLevelsTakenRightsPossibilityDiseaseHuman RightsCornersExtremesNightmareLeapUsualFascismCollapseHippieFamineEpidemicsMenusDifferent LevelsTriage Author:Terence McKenna
“I do triage on everything that comes through the door, and if it's not something we need (now, for real-not maybe someday) or something that deserves to be saved for posterity, it's discarded. I stop before I let myself drop something into a drawer or set it down on the piano. 'Where does it belong?' I think. If I don't have a place for it, I make a place.” IfsThinkingNeedsDoeRealDoorsDeserveSavedPianoOrganizedSomedayPosterityDrawersDiscardedMaybe SomedayTriage Author:Michelle Herman