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!Procrastination

Turns out I feel more inspired to do stuff when I don't have a week-long list of overdue tasks hanging over my head.. who knew not putting things off until the last minute actually inspired more productivity?

Posted by kasia on October 26, 2005 11:31 PM |

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Wow, what a earth-shattering discovery. WRite a book about it and go on Oprah.

Posted by: Dave | October 27, 2005 06:23 AM

Interesting... For some reason I find the opposite to be true. The pressure of a deadline seems to inspire to me work harder and work better.

Of course getting it done early does help because there's no stress. :)

Posted by: Jeremy | October 27, 2005 04:06 PM

That's called Structured Procrastination -http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~john/procrastination.html- and it's wonderful!

Posted by: soob | October 28, 2005 11:21 AM

oops, let that be a lesson... don't place dashes too close to your URLs

corrected link: http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~john/procrastination.html

Posted by: soob | October 28, 2005 11:23 AM

this little piece of wisdom frequently occurs to me. i don't have a pen handy, don't feel like getting up to find one, and it falls by the wayside. ironic, huh?

Posted by: rob | October 29, 2005 03:07 AM

I've discovered that urgency is an incredible way of focusing the mind. Without it life is subject to far too many distractions, some you like, and some you don't but they all get your attention and probably not deservedly.

I seem to have had a rolling list of things that need finishing for what seems like an eternity, until today. Now, I have 24 hours to finish a codec implementation, integtrate it into a softswitch, and test it to the satisfaction of the "beta" committee... or fly out to Thailand and complete it out there for the demo on Tuesday.

Great joy. Guess what I'll be doing today...

Posted by: Ant | October 29, 2005 06:43 AM