Revenge bedtime procrastination(solvingprocrastination.com)

167 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 63 comments

Productive Procrastination(maxvanijsselmuiden.nl)

108 points by maxvij 6 months ago | 39 comments

Perfectionism is optimizing at the wrong scale(autodidacts.io)

81 points by Curiositry 2 years ago | 32 comments

Structured Procrastination (1995)(structuredprocrastination.com)

425 points by ipnon 1 year ago | 150 comments

John Perry's classic 1995 essay describing structured procrastination, a strategy for getting work done by putting off other, more important tasks.

The Student Syndrome: Delaying until right before deadlines(solvingprocrastination.com)

31 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 13 comments

The Napoleon Technique: Postponing things to increase productivity(effectiviology.com)

238 points by Khaine 9 months ago | 122 comments

Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough(swapnilchauhan.com)

528 points by swapxstar 1 year ago | 220 comments

A personal blog post by Swapnil Chauhan reflecting on how procrastination with reading and writing stems from fear of not being good enough.

The Art of Finishing(bytedrum.com)

609 points by emmorts 2 years ago | 147 comments

A personal blog essay on the ByteDrum blog about a developer's pile of unfinished side projects and the challenge of actually finishing them.

Excellence is a habit, but so is failure(awesomekling.github.io)

702 points by dvrp 3 years ago | 223 comments

A personal blog essay by Andreas Kling arguing that small incremental neglect and poor choices accumulate into failure just as small improvements build excellence.

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.

I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)

1166 points by jernestomg 8 months ago | 633 comments

A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.

Small programming tricks(will-keleher.com)

606 points by signa11 1 month ago | 266 comments

A blog post arguing that small nuggets of programming knowledge boost productivity, sharing examples like fzf-powered ctrl+r and python3 -m http.server.