Stop Procrastinating by “Clearing to Neutral”

Post by barking » Sat, Nov 03, 2012, 6:56 PM UTC

larsberg wrote: post #10

kiba wrote: post #3

Nice hypothesis, but where's the lab result? I highly encourage people to think skeptically and scientific as well using the self quantitative approach to self improvement, even when they're certain when their theory is right. For example, I am measuring blood pressure, steps count, weight, blood sugar level, awake and sleep time everyday. I also just recently concluded that walking 10K steps have almost no effect on…

> walking 10K steps have almost no effect on my weight If you're going to change and track something to test its correlation to weight, please consider calorie intake instead. 10k steps is really not going to burn many calories (my marathon running friends use the "1 mile = 100 calories" rule of thumb). Additionally, many people starting cardio see an increase in appetite and if they are not already used to carefully…

Post by antidoh » Sat, Nov 03, 2012, 7:41 PM UTC

kiba wrote: post #3

Nice hypothesis, but where's the lab result? I highly encourage people to think skeptically and scientific as well using the self quantitative approach to self improvement, even when they're certain when their theory is right. For example, I am measuring blood pressure, steps count, weight, blood sugar level, awake and sleep time everyday. I also just recently concluded that walking 10K steps have almost no effect on…

Post by tptacek » Sat, Nov 03, 2012, 7:45 PM UTC

sarah2079 wrote: post #2

I think a lot of this applies to me, I have a bad habit of leaving windows open for things I am not actively working on even though I know this can really bog me down mentally. However, while I think there is a lot of value in clearing your workspace to remove friction, someone also gave me some really good advice to help with getting started in the morning that is a little bit contradictory. The advice is to leave s…

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Nov 03, 2012, 8:30 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #14

A variant (I think) of this idea that I've been using for years: when I stop coding, I jot down what I was doing, whatever problems I was dealing with, and what I felt my next steps were going to be in a little Emacs buffer. It would probably be even smarter of me to take 20 seconds to figure out exactly the right set of Emacs tabs/frames to keep open alongside them, so when it was time to start up again, I'd get suc…

Post by thirdsun » Sat, Nov 03, 2012, 9:03 PM UTC

mattraibert wrote: post #4

This article got me thinking about places in my life where there's friction. My computer stands out as a huge source of friction. I already try to close unnecessary windows/tabs, but after reading this, I realized that, because I use it for so many different habits, my desktop fails as a friction free starting point for work. So I've identified a few ways I use my computer and I'm setting up a user account for each o…