diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a9e60a5..71a1e13 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [Unreleased] - 
+
+### Changed
+- Change default task `retries` to `[2, 4, 8, 16, 32]`
+
 ## [0.18.1] - 2024-02-14
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/src/mel/task.cr b/src/mel/task.cr
index f5246dd..8fb2c08 100644
--- a/src/mel/task.cr
+++ b/src/mel/task.cr
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ abstract class Mel::Task
     in Indexable
       retries.map { |time| time.is_a?(Time::Span) ? time : time.seconds }.to_a
     in Nil
-      [1.second, 2.seconds]
+      [2.seconds, 4.seconds, 8.seconds, 16.seconds, 32.seconds]
     end
   end