Procrastination
So I took a day off from work to catch up on things (housecleaning, paperwork, wedding invitations, Mother's Day cards, that sort of thing...) and ended up doing some work-related hacking on our build system (we just switched over to Subversion, and are still shaking out some of the CVS dependencies.)
Combining that observation with a quote from Jesse's bio (I won't spoil it, you'll have to wait for the book :-) and some of the GTD stuff, and letting it rattle around for a bit, I realize that something in common with "hacker types" *isn't* that we don't procrastinate. If anything, we're worse about it. It's just that we procrastinate by doing things that other people would call "work"...
Combining that observation with a quote from Jesse's bio (I won't spoil it, you'll have to wait for the book :-) and some of the GTD stuff, and letting it rattle around for a bit, I realize that something in common with "hacker types" *isn't* that we don't procrastinate. If anything, we're worse about it. It's just that we procrastinate by doing things that other people would call "work"...