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It seems to me that my work ethic / tendency to akrasia / etc. has changed a lot since 2020, and many people around me seem to agree that it’s also become harder for them to keep working on things they don’t really enjoy doing. But I find myself very...
Status: just a quick question that probably can’t get a good answer LessWrong has a lot of advice on how to beat akrasia, most of which is written by people who had good ideas for the sort of things that might work, tested them on themselves, and found out that...
As you will probably have noticed before the end of this question, I’m a relatively mediocre writer. I mean, I’m not that bad, I know a lot of people who are worse at it than I am, but I still often notice a pattern in basically everything I write: exceedingly...
There’s a lot of productivity advice on LW, or more specifically advice on how to beat procrastination and akrasia (see this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, … — all of those are pretty good and you should check...
Does being online destroy our attention? Have our attention spans been declining? What I’ve read on the topic says "Not really". More specifically: First, there’s that SMTM post (published as part of their Mysteries contest and actually written by this person). What do we learn from this one? First, there...
These last few weeks, I’ve spent a lot of time reading stuff about how to fix science, and there’s a lot of conflicting things, or different priorities we could have, etc. There are those who want more freedom and creativity, those who want more innovation and ideas that solve the...
There are many things I would like to do, or even to make a habit of doing… and yet I procrastinate a lot. Yeah, I know, pretty uncommon, right? It’s pretty easy to find, either here or elsewhere, a lot of methods to fight procrastination, that work more or less...