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Created: May 20, 2025
Updated: June 19, 2025
Type: evergreen
Tags:#project-management#digital-garden

The Prioritization Problem

Are those projects of yours abandoned projects or are they Seedlings?

"A seedling is a young plant that has the potential to grow into a mature plant. Similarly, your project, despite being dormant, has the potential to be revived and develop further." - ๐˜Ž๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜จ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ˆ๐˜

The term "seedling" in this context can be used metaphorically to describe something that has the potential to develop, even if it's currently dormant.

You don't have to complete that project now.

You've planted the seed, you can come back to it weeks, months & even a year from now with a different perspective, skills, tools and experience to nurture that seed & eventually have it grow into something that you only need to tend to later (frequent updates).

This is my current perspective on projects, I started Dexagames years ago. I came back to it but changed the name to Pentagames. The project isn't complete but it's one that I am tending to.

I now have several projects like this that I will be tending to for a long time1.

In the light of this, I might very well change the name of my projects page from projects to seedlings (wow I'm so cool!).

Footnotes

  1. Check out my projects page on /projects page to see all my seddlings. โ†ฉ