Beeminding +4. I’ve found that the default 1 year goal length is too long for me. These days I’m usually doing 1 month long goals. I’ve found that the easiest formula to follow is to beemind doing at least a little bit of the thing you want to do every day, without quantifying how much you’ve actually done.
LessWrong Study Hall +7. I’m a regular there. In terms of the procrastination equation the pomodoro rhythm decreases delay, peer pressure decreases impulsiveness, and social chat during pomodoros increases value. Tinychat IMO is not a good piece of software. It suffers from frequent disconnects and has no form of keep-alive for quiet periods. We still don’t have enough people there to guarantee 24⁄7 coverage.
GTD system +5. The main benefits of GTD to me is the focus on decomposing projects into actionable chunks, offloading stuff into “a trusted system” to free up cognitive resources, and the notion of thinking at different “horizons of focus”. I’ve found the down-to-earth pragmatism of the GTD method helpful when attacking some Ugh fields. BTW, I use Remember The Milk as my GTD database. Previously I’ve used OmniFocus on a Mac.
Resolving to Do Better in The Future: −3. Huh. That’s not how it works.
Micro-rewards: +2. I’ve tried to use almonds as dog treats at work: 1 almond for each Git commit and such. After a few weeks of feeling slightly incentivised by it I absentmindedly ate the whole bowl. I might return to it in the future.
LeechBlock +2. Wasting time on-line is a problem for me. LeechBlock helps in general, but has some drawbacks. I have several sets of URL patterns: a work-related whitelist that’s never blocked, a list of known timesinks that’s always blocked and a general ‘*’ glob to for a total Lockdown. The problem with the last one is that one needs to remember to enable it, and every now and then in the middle of such a Lockdown I want to check StackOverflow or something.
Beeminding +4. I’ve found that the default 1 year goal length is too long for me. These days I’m usually doing 1 month long goals. I’ve found that the easiest formula to follow is to beemind doing at least a little bit of the thing you want to do every day, without quantifying how much you’ve actually done.
LessWrong Study Hall +7. I’m a regular there. In terms of the procrastination equation the pomodoro rhythm decreases delay, peer pressure decreases impulsiveness, and social chat during pomodoros increases value. Tinychat IMO is not a good piece of software. It suffers from frequent disconnects and has no form of keep-alive for quiet periods. We still don’t have enough people there to guarantee 24⁄7 coverage.
GTD system +5. The main benefits of GTD to me is the focus on decomposing projects into actionable chunks, offloading stuff into “a trusted system” to free up cognitive resources, and the notion of thinking at different “horizons of focus”. I’ve found the down-to-earth pragmatism of the GTD method helpful when attacking some Ugh fields. BTW, I use Remember The Milk as my GTD database. Previously I’ve used OmniFocus on a Mac.
Resolving to Do Better in The Future: −3. Huh. That’s not how it works.
Micro-rewards: +2. I’ve tried to use almonds as dog treats at work: 1 almond for each Git commit and such. After a few weeks of feeling slightly incentivised by it I absentmindedly ate the whole bowl. I might return to it in the future.
LeechBlock +2. Wasting time on-line is a problem for me. LeechBlock helps in general, but has some drawbacks. I have several sets of URL patterns: a work-related whitelist that’s never blocked, a list of known timesinks that’s always blocked and a general ‘*’ glob to for a total Lockdown. The problem with the last one is that one needs to remember to enable it, and every now and then in the middle of such a Lockdown I want to check StackOverflow or something.
Concerning the Study Hall, it’s still active and we get way better coverage now. It might not work for everyone but it’s definitely worth a try.
Could you repost the link to study hall? I recall initially people had been trying different venues and services and I wasn’t sure where it ended up.
http://tinychat.com/lesswrong the password is lw
It’s now hosted on Complice at https://complice.co/room/lesswrong