What is making priorities visible?

Making priorities visible is a concept in personal epistemology: Making your priorities visible to others helps them support rather than undermine your focus.

Example: You have been working on a product launch for three weeks. It is your top priority. Your colleague sends you a Slack message asking for help debugging an integration — something that would take the rest of your afternoon. You say 'I'm heads-down on the launch until Thursday — can this wait, or does someone else have bandwidth?' Your colleague replies: 'Didn't realize you were in launch mode. I'll ask Maria.' The entire exchange took forty seconds. Without that single sentence revealing your priority, you would have spent four hours on the debug, shipped the launch late, and blamed yourself for poor time management. The priority did not change. The visibility did.

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