I’ve been thinking a lot about task management lately, largely due to what Seth Godin says in Linchpin and what Chris Brogan had to say in a post titled You’re not as busy as you think. What I’ve come to realize is that there are four kinds of tasks: tasks that we enjoy but don’t move us forward, tasks that keep us busy, tasks that we think are important, and tasks that are important and have momentum. The former three can be very counter-productive. I call these types of tasks Time Marauders.