People will talk about the wage-price spiral (which has been demonstrated to be false), but they won’t talk so much about the herd behaviour at the higher echelons of our industry.
The autofocus way of handling todos has a charm in that it treats your work as an endless stream and tries to take the negativity and failure out of it. I now am doing something quite similar by using Things as the river and dragging tasks into my calendar which has a natural limit to it.