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A while back, the BBC News reported that:
Often it's so innocent. It might even be relevant initially. A quick Wikipedia fact-check, perhaps. But before long you've been sucked into the wormhole. Link after link, page after page. When you finally snap out of it you've lost a precious hour and you're reading about the intricacies of 16th Century Prussian politics. If this sounds familiar, you're not alone.
"We're really entering the golden age of procrastination," says Dr Piers Steel, who has conducted surveys and written The Procrastination Equation. "One in four [people] would describe themselves as a chronic procrastinator, [while] over half the population would describe themselves as frequent," he says. "In the last 40 years there's been about a 300-400% growth in chronic procrastination," which is when it becomes particularly self-defeating, Steel explains. UK smartphone users check their phone 221 times a day on average, a recent survey found. Checking emails and social media cost 36% of respondents more than an hour each day in productivity, another survey found.
The article gives some extreme measures to stop procrastination including Victor Hugo's valet hiding clothes or Greek orator Demosthenes shaving one side of his face to discourage any outdoors procrastination. Software to discourage procrastination is also mentioned.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday October 15 2014, @10:10PM
Can SN implement some of the above mentioned software? Once in place, I could spend the entire day on SN without feeling guilty: after all, I'm doing my best to cure my procrastination.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Thursday October 16 2014, @01:02AM
Go watch beta
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday October 16 2014, @05:28AM
What have I done to you to deserve your ill-wishes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Thursday October 16 2014, @06:35PM
Beta is the procrastination cure. Perhaps I should have been less terse but I had distractions to do. ;-)
(Score: 2) by juggs on Thursday October 16 2014, @01:09AM
Perhaps we could implement some kind of hours spent on site per day award. Then you would no longer be procrastinating, you'd be actively working toward an award.
Perhaps we could have side exercises that gamify learning to tie knots, or getting stones out of horse's feet, or gutting a fish etc. while you wait for the next story to churn out so as not to impact your hours on site.... we could call those... let me think... badges! Yes!! Badges! Why did no-one think of this before....
(Score: 1) by J053 on Thursday October 16 2014, @01:19AM
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday October 16 2014, @05:26AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday October 16 2014, @01:11PM
Perhaps we could implement some kind of hours spent on site per day award.
And reward slow readers?
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