What is how to set weekly priorities?

How to set weekly priorities is a concept in personal epistemology: Each week deliberately choose your top priorities rather than continuing last weeks by default.

Example: Every Sunday evening you sit down with a blank sheet of paper. Not your task list from last week. Not your calendar. A blank sheet. You write the question at the top: "If I were starting fresh this week with no prior commitments, what would I choose to focus on?" You consult your values, your active projects, your energy level, your upcoming obligations. You write three priorities. Then — and only then — you compare them against last week's priorities. Two of the three are the same. The third is different. Last week, "prepare the investor deck" was priority three. This week, the deck is done. Priority three is now "rebuild the onboarding flow that is losing 40 percent of new users." If you had simply carried last week's list forward, "prepare the investor deck" would have lingered as a phantom priority, consuming mental space and preventing the onboarding problem from getting the attention it deserves. The reset caught the drift. It took eleven minutes.

This concept is part of Phase 35 (Priority Systems) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for priority systems.