Why I Procrastinate (2019)
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Why I Procrastinate (2019)
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Re: Why I Procrastinate (2019)
#2All these procrastination articles are obviously finding their target audience here on HN!
Re: Why I Procrastinate (2019)
#3I like these upvoted posts on procrastination. Feels like the HN community (like myself) struggles with this. Nowadays I embrace procrastination as necessary "evil". Unlike the cited post, I don't think one needs "help" with that - it might just backfire even more.
I have come to believe that procrastination is a healthy and necessary condition for outstanding productivity. It is like REM sleep or something :-)
I think that without some level of procrastination nothing amazing would ever be done.
Re: Why I Procrastinate (2019)
#4It's like this guy has been inside my head. Sometimes I feel exactly he same way, do the same things (well, not Twitter), with the same thoughts and results. There have been times when I refresh HN and say "you're not even enjoying this, why do you keep looking?"
Re: Why I Procrastinate (2019)
#5All these procrastination articles are obviously finding their target audience here on HN!
Upvote this man
Re: Why I Procrastinate (2019)
#6The post linked within this post was really illuminating for me: https://gekk.info/articles/adhd.html
The section on why notecards and todo lists have never worked for him (and for me) was particularly salient:
"The problem with "systems" is that they are authorities. They have to be. If you decide "I'll prioritize things with a stack of notecards" then you are telling yourself the following:
"The notecards replace my own brain. Everything that I do must be on a notecard. If it isn't on a notecard, it can't be done. If I want it done, it has to be on a notecard."
The problem is that when you have a crisis (a day full of emergencies) that forces you to break from this system you will lose all respect for its authority. Your brain will learn that it doesn't have to respect the notecards, that they aren't in charge, and this sense of freedom is addictive and will persist. Most ADHD sufferers have left a trail of systems - notecards, whiteboards, lists, post-its, apps, alarms - that worked great for [a month, a week, three days] but are now dead to them, scorched earth we can't return to."
Re: Why I Procrastinate (2019)
#7All these procrastination articles are obviously finding their target audience here on HN!
I think all the developers out there who are actually doing work aren't here to upvote other topics.
Re: Why I Procrastinate (2019)
#8Remember, idle hands are the devil’s playground.
Re: Why I Procrastinate (2019)
#9Procrastination articles start to appear on HN as we get close to end of January. There is a lesson in there somewhere.
Re: Why I Procrastinate (2019)
#10All these procrastination articles are obviously finding their target audience here on HN!
We need to extend the "noprocast" feature to address this.