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> The alternative is to tackle something even harder that includes the thing you want to make as a special case.

This is the main operating principle of http://www.structuredprocrastination.com



After reading that article a while back, I started making longer to-do lists. I found that it's hard for me to do a task on a three item to-do list. But if my list has 20 items, it's somehow easier to pick an item from the middle of the list and bang it out.


Amazing that after a distinguished career as a respected philosopy professor at Stanford, Perry's greatest contribution to humanity may be that humorous article on procrastiantion.


By John Perry, co-host of the delightful radio show Philosophy Talk (or at least that's how I know him). I'm sold.




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