#36 | Sunday reads for EMs

My favourite reads of the week to make your Sunday a little more inspiring.

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One List to Rule Them All (James Stanier)

tl;dr: The word “priority” was singular for 500 years; we only started pluralizing it in the 1900s, and that linguistic shift gave us permission to avoid hard decisions. Maintaining a single stack-ranked list (no ties, no tiers) is a forcing function that externalizes debate and makes trade-offs visible - the discomfort of creating it is precisely the point, because it surfaces the conversations you’ve been avoiding.