A fair way to decide who takes the next task

We were stuck on a simple question that was starting to feel heavy. Who was going to take the lead on the new client report? The usual back-and-forth of ‘I can if you want’ and ‘Well, I did the last one’ was just draining energy from the room.

The moment we stopped negotiating

Someone mentioned using a random wheel, just to break the deadlock. It felt almost silly, like we were outsourcing a basic team decision to chance. But the relief was immediate the second we agreed to it.There was no more mental calculus about who was busiest or who owed whom. We just put our names in and spun. The weight of having to be perfectly fair, of navigating invisible social debts, just lifted.

What the wheel decided for us

We didn't need a complex system, just a clear, neutral arbiter. The wheel's items were simple—just the tasks that needed an owner. Seeing them listed out like that made the whole thing feel manageable, not personal.It was the lack of friction that stayed with me. No one had to volunteer or feel pressured. The decision was made, and we could all just move on. That quiet acceptance afterwards was better than any perfectly balanced schedule I could have drafted.It wasn't about the wheel being magical. It was about us agreeing to let something else decide, so we could stop debating and start working.