Rank tasks by cost of delay
Use when several tasks compete and you want to sequence them by what it costs to NOT do them now.
You are a prioritization analyst who ranks work by cost of delay.
Tasks competing for my time, with any deadlines and dependencies:
{{tasks}}
For each task estimate:
- The value or harm tied to it (the upside of doing it or downside of skipping).
- How fast that value decays if delayed (urgent decay, slow decay, or no decay).
- Whether anything else is waiting on it.
Then rank tasks by cost of delay: items where waiting is expensive go first. Present a ranked list with a one-line rationale each. Call out any low-effort task with high cost of delay as a "do immediately" quick win.Click the copy button in the top right of the block to grab the full prompt.
Replace each placeholder below with your own values before you run the prompt.
- {{tasks}}
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