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What are you avoiding working on? (openhatch.org)
24 points by akkartik on March 11, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments



When I talked to my teammate George, he mentioned off-handedly that he had fixed it. He didn’t feel any of the anguish I felt or assign me the blame I thought I deserved

Quoted for suspicion of harbouring some deep and meaningful information.


knowtu - tricky concurrency and indexing problems. Still fun though ;)


That econometrics project that's due next Friday mostly. Also a past examination paper I want to have done in same as practice and a Macroeconomics paper. I iz lazy.


No you don't. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1138716

You aren't working on it for a good reason, part of you doesn't want to. Stop describing yourself as lazy and you open up the option of finding which bit(s) of you doesn't want to work on it and why, and addressing that.


Akrasia for the win! I don't want to work on it because I can't see how to apply it now, and I'm not being paid to do it. Man, I miss getting paid.


Akrasia for the lose! Or at least, which type of akrasia?

http://lesswrong.com/lw/1tu/improving_the_akrasia_hypothesis...

You're on HN Reading plenty of things you can't apply immediately, and aren't getting paid for, so those reasons are possibly present but not sufficient.


taxes

oh, I thought this was an "Ask HN"




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