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Good and Bad Procrastination procrastination Sunday, June 8, 2014
Good and Bad Procrastination
Good and Bad Procrastination
procrastination
Jun 8, 2014
Extracted Page: http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.html
December 2005
The most impressive people I know are all terrible procrastinators. So could it be that procrastination isn't always bad?
Most people who write about procrastination write about how to cure it. But this is, strictly speaking, impossible. There are an infinite number of things you could be doing. No matter what you work on, you're not working on everything else. So the question is not how to avoid procrastination, but how to procrastinate well.
There are three variants of procrastination, depending on what you do instead of working
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