Comments on: Modular Procrastination

By: PhD

PhD — Sun, 20 May 2007 10:00:31 +0000

Part of it is that computers suck -- you have to wrap your mind around the machine, rather than the other way around. It's easy to get distracted this way. One effort to fix that is Thing That Think.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:40:44 +0000

Sounds like a Sorites Paradox theory of procrastination; we can't tell at what point an additional moment of distraction will turn into a heap of wasted time.

By: michael farris

michael farris — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:29:51 +0000

“Right now, the internet seems to be great at creating not only modular procrastination, but cascading procrastination”

I’d say it’s prone to enabling catastrophic cascading procrastination (as a fully integrated lifestyle).

By: laurex

laurex — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:33:46 +0000

Perhaps you could turn this into some kind of doctoral thesis. Oh, wait.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:41:07 +0000

I was already procrastinating in reading this (having just logged off Facebook, which I was routed to by an email alert), and now you had to go and remind me that I haven’t seen a Strong Bad email in over a month. Here goes another ten minutes. Right now, the internet seems to be great at creating not only modular procrastination, but cascading procrastination.

By: Christopher M

Christopher M — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:17:18 +0000

Dammit, I was going to make the previous commenter’s point. Now how am I going to fill up the next minute or two?

By: jadagul

jadagul — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:48:43 +0000

Nitpick: it should be “multa cetera,” not “multae cetera.”