Structured Procrastination

[posted by Liberty Miller, 2007-July-22 at 1:56am gmt-7]

John Perry's essay on Structured Procrastination

(...there are still big opportunities ahead in search, collaborative filtering, and recommendation systems ...)

... how to turn a "bad habit" into an effective strategy:

"This is the essence of what I call structured procrastination, an amazing strategy I have discovered that converts procrastinators into effective human beings... The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing...the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important. Structured procrastination means shaping the structure of the tasks one has to do in a way that exploits this fact."

It's short and concise -- definitely worth a read if you're not 100% satisfied with your ability to get things done.

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