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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#690: The Priority Problem

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Magic The Gathering, Games, Mark Rosewater, Ccg, Leisure, Mtg, Game Design

4.7801 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This podcast talks about why we can't easily meet every request.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling away from the curb. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work,

0:05.6

and I took my kids to school. Okay, today I'm going to discuss what I call the priority problem.

0:15.3

Something that I deal with a lot on my blog, social media, and I want to walk through and sort of explain, it just is a

0:23.2

reoccurring issue that comes up, and I sort of want to walk through it.

0:25.7

I thought this would be an interesting podcast topic.

0:28.5

Okay, so one of the things that happens on social media, especially on my blog, is a player

0:33.1

writes to me and says, I want thing X.

0:36.8

Thing X is really important to me. In fact, of all the things

0:40.4

you could do in the game, Thing X is the most important thing. And then, oftentimes, they'll

0:48.3

write back and go, hey, just checking in again, I like Thing X. Why haven't you done thing X yet?

0:56.4

And when I, it might be one person, it might be a bunch of people.

1:00.3

But what happens is early on, it's sort of like, oh, I really would like this.

1:04.8

And over time, as it doesn't happen, they start getting more upset.

1:08.2

Like, why haven't you done such and such?

1:10.2

It would have been a perfect opportunity here to do such and such.

1:13.0

You could have done it right here.

1:15.9

And the issue I want to talk about today is a little bit about sort of,

1:20.7

a reason I call it the priority problem is if something is the number one priority.

1:26.7

And for the person or people talking to me, it's their number one priority.

1:31.6

Well, if it's your number one priority, you could find places to make it happen.

1:36.3

You know, like if that's the most important thing that you needed to have happened, well, here's a place and here's a place.

1:42.2

You look and find opportunities, and then it's sort of like,

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