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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 PizzaRollPlinkett on Thursday October 16 2014, @11:02AM
Someone asking you to buy his book is not news.
(E-mail me if you want a pizza roll!)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 16 2014, @12:00PM
But then, given the target population, he might not sell too many books.
"Oh yes, I've long planned to buy it, but then there always is this list "people interested in this book were also interested in", and, well, you have to look there, because there might be something better there, and then I looked into the reviews of one of those books, and there was a word I didn't understand, so I looked it up in Wikipedia ..."
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday October 16 2014, @01:15PM
It is if it's a new book. BTW, my new one will be out when I get around to...
Carbon, The only element in the known universe to ever gain sentience