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urlwolf:
Super-cool article by Paul Graham on the topic:
http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.html

Note: posting to donation coder counts as BAD procrastination :D

app103:

Note: posting to donation coder counts as BAD procrastination :D
-urlwolf (June 02, 2006, 06:28 AM)
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But it's healthy to have a social life...and for some of us, our online activities are about as close as we get to having a copy of life.exe. So post away...it's good for you....and me.  ;)

And for some of us, that idea for the next big project might come from something someone posted here.

btw...great article...I'll feel less guilty for not doing housework now.  :P

urlwolf:

btw...great article...I'll feel less guilty for not doing housework now.  :P
-app103 (June 02, 2006, 07:39 AM)
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I think that was the whole point of the article :D

Darwin:
Brilliant  ;D. I'm sorry I missed it 16 months ago  :Thmbsup:

Armando:
There are other pretty funny essays over there. Like A Plea for the Horizontally Organized .

I do use filing cabinets. They are for a) storing finished things that one plans never to look at again and b) putting things that one would feel bad about throwing away but has no intention of reading. Say an old colleague sends you a long boring paper that she has just finished. It would be unfeeling and mean to throw it away; one would no doubt have to lie the next time one saw the person. But if one puts the essay in a filing cabinet one can say, "Yes, it's in my file of things to read this summer". All this implies is that one has a file labeled "Thing to read this summer" and that one put the paper in it, so one is not really telling a lie, even if the chances of reading the paper this summer (or any summer, fall, winter or spring) are nil.
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Or this one : Laptops and Lab Manuals


My wife decided the issue. She saw the beautiful but admittedly large black vinyl case setting next to the rest of my luggage. She picked it up. "Isn't that your computer?" she asked. "Yes it is," I replied. "You're not taking that heavy thing on the plane with you are you?" she asked. "Well why do you think I got the thing in the first place," I replied, a tad defensively. "I don't want to waste the four hours on the plane. I can get a lot of work done on my computer this way," I added. "Well, you know best," she replied in a way that meant roughly, "Well, you don't know what you are doing."

Of course, she was exactly right. I couldn't really get the thing fully open in my economy seat. When the passenger in front lowered their seat back I almost lost both of my hands. During the brief periods of time when I could type on my computer, I mainly thought wistfully of the mystery novel I would have been forced to waste my time on, if only I had left my computer at home.

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They're all very good.

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