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“Hofstadter’s law,” which states that any task you’re planning to tackle will always take longer than you expect, “even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
The thing that neither the dictionary nor fake procrastinators understand is that for a real procrastinator, procrastination isn’t optional—it’s something they don’t know how to not do.
waitbutwhy.com • Why Procrastinators Procrastinate — Wait but Why
Idea Labs and Echo Chambers.
Tim Urban • Page Not Found — Wait But Why
we’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
embrace radical incrementalism. The psychology professor Robert Boice spent his career studying the writing habits of his fellow academics, reaching the conclusion that the most productive and successful among them generally made writing a smaller part of their daily routine than the others, so that it was much more feasible to keep going with it d
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
The first part of the card is: Dream in years, Plan in months, Evaluate in weeks, Ship daily