https://iamlino.net/en/tags/prioritization/Recent content in Prioritization on I am LinoHugoenMon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://iamlino.net/en/blog/the-cult-of-urgency-when-everything-was-needed-yesterday-and-tomorrow-will-be-worse/Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://iamlino.net/en/blog/the-cult-of-urgency-when-everything-was-needed-yesterday-and-tomorrow-will-be-worse/<blockquote> <p>At a software company I won&rsquo;t name (but which absolutely exists), a developer received the same message three Fridays in a row at 5:45 pm: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s critical, I need this today.&rdquo; On the third Friday, he finished the fix, deployed it, and nobody opened it until the following Tuesday. The developer is still in therapy. The manager has had the same unread email sitting in his backlog for two months.</p>