[tptacek]

Wild-assed guess: it's something people working on projects at BigCo's do in lieu of actual work. It's pantomiming execution instead of executing.

We have a company all-hands this week, flying everyone in from NYC and SF; we're launching a new product and I have to do an hour on it. I don't think I'm going to do a deck. Why bother?

[colbyolson]

It's something people working on projects at BigCo's do in lieu of actual work. It's pantomiming execution instead of executing.

This is, generally, how I feel about ToDo lists.

[pyre]

How so? Some people need todo lists to keep them focused. Otherwise they forget things that they were supposed to get done, or allow themselves to get distracted by other things.

[wahnfrieden]

I use a todo list so I don't forget things. When I'm developing software, the ideas come faster than I can execute them, for one. But the list is only a vim buffer, so it would be hard to waste time micromanaging it like you can with more elaborate todo-list software.