Clever procrastination hack
Joshua Newman partly blames his procrastination on his amorphous job for which almost any activity can be rationalized as vaguely productive. That struck a chord with me, as does his simple life hack for doing the tasks that are more productive instead of the ones that are less, but maybe more fun or insteresting.
Very recently, however, I’ve discovered a way that I can trick myself into listening to the smarter part: I schedule, on the half hour, tiny little increments of work, then let myself go back to ‘productively’ goofing off as soon as I’ve done each little increment, at least until the next half hour mark chimes.
(hat tip: 43folders)