videos and time management
This takes a while to load but is pretty damn cool. I can only recognize maybe 50% of what's going on, but hopefully that will change soon too.
Every rock star should be as entertaining as Wayne Coyne. (Related.)
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I notice what one of my biggest problems is: I tend to make fuzzy proclamations of the sort that "I think I'll do this," or "I should do this" and then subsequently fail to follow up on them. But I find that when I set actual concrete quotas and goals for myself, I tend to meet them. This is really just an intrapersonal version of standard Schellingian bargaining theory: regular milestones that both parties can monitor are ways to solve the problem of credible commitment, wheras distant and poorly-defined targets are easy to fudge and cheat on. Throw in standard dynamic inconsistency and you see the problem.
The obvious solution is to start setting unambiguous quotas to meet, both as upper and lower bounds: 50 pages a day, 3 hours of internet, 20 minutes of running, etc. Not just quantitative, either: "I will have a no outstanding messages in my inbox or items on my RSS feed at the end of every day," and so forth. colinmarshall once said that "when I get around to it" is procrasti-code for "never," and he was right -- generally if I find myself putting something off, it's better to just let it go because I'll probably eventually end up doing this anyway.
Every rock star should be as entertaining as Wayne Coyne. (Related.)
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I notice what one of my biggest problems is: I tend to make fuzzy proclamations of the sort that "I think I'll do this," or "I should do this" and then subsequently fail to follow up on them. But I find that when I set actual concrete quotas and goals for myself, I tend to meet them. This is really just an intrapersonal version of standard Schellingian bargaining theory: regular milestones that both parties can monitor are ways to solve the problem of credible commitment, wheras distant and poorly-defined targets are easy to fudge and cheat on. Throw in standard dynamic inconsistency and you see the problem.
The obvious solution is to start setting unambiguous quotas to meet, both as upper and lower bounds: 50 pages a day, 3 hours of internet, 20 minutes of running, etc. Not just quantitative, either: "I will have a no outstanding messages in my inbox or items on my RSS feed at the end of every day," and so forth. colinmarshall once said that "when I get around to it" is procrasti-code for "never," and he was right -- generally if I find myself putting something off, it's better to just let it go because I'll probably eventually end up doing this anyway.