Shortform #18 The downsides of procrastination, otherwise a great day.
Today was a mostly great day!
I spent about 4 hours today engaged in virtually social activities, split relatively evenly between hanging out with friends versus structured social time (trans support group, game night, etc.)
I spent about 2 hours skimming 2019 posts and selecting what to write reviews on, about 20 minutes of that time was actual review writing.
I made cookies :)
Unfortunately, because I started the review process (skimming nominated 2019 posts, writing actual reviews) way too late in the LW 2019 Review project, I wasn’t able to publish three reviews like I had originally hoped to do at the beginning of the 2019 Review project. I haven’t even finished one review, and don’t have time to finish that one before midnight.
Noticed: If you procrastinate on something important to you, you will miss out on that or submit whatever you wanted to produce, late...
This [procrastination] is something I’ve struggled with for years, and it frustrates me to no end. I’m publicly discussing my most recent failure due to procrastination (not writing and publishing three reviews for the LW 2019 Review project), because I want to keep better track of how often I do that, plus, it hurts to talk about it and fail publicly, which feels like a good thing. I.e., that feels like it’ll reduce how much I procrastinate on the next project I publicly commit to.
I know writing reviews for those posts past the deadline won’t include them in the voting phase of the LW 2019 Review project, but I’d like to finish what I set out to do, so I’ll be writing those reviews and publishing them this week. Additionally, those three posts are great, and I want to review them so that maybe others can gain more benefit from those posts.
I walked indoors for about 30 minutes today. I did not listen to music while writing this shortform.
Shortform #18 The downsides of procrastination, otherwise a great day.
Today was a mostly great day!
I spent about 4 hours today engaged in virtually social activities, split relatively evenly between hanging out with friends versus structured social time (trans support group, game night, etc.)
I spent about 2 hours skimming 2019 posts and selecting what to write reviews on, about 20 minutes of that time was actual review writing.
I made cookies :)
Unfortunately, because I started the review process (skimming nominated 2019 posts, writing actual reviews) way too late in the LW 2019 Review project, I wasn’t able to publish three reviews like I had originally hoped to do at the beginning of the 2019 Review project. I haven’t even finished one review, and don’t have time to finish that one before midnight.
Noticed: If you procrastinate on something important to you, you will miss out on that or submit whatever you wanted to produce, late...
This [procrastination] is something I’ve struggled with for years, and it frustrates me to no end. I’m publicly discussing my most recent failure due to procrastination (not writing and publishing three reviews for the LW 2019 Review project), because I want to keep better track of how often I do that, plus, it hurts to talk about it and fail publicly, which feels like a good thing. I.e., that feels like it’ll reduce how much I procrastinate on the next project I publicly commit to.
The three posts I was going to review are:
Gears-Level Models are Capital Investments
The Power to Teach Concepts Better
Literature Review: Distributed Teams
I know writing reviews for those posts past the deadline won’t include them in the voting phase of the LW 2019 Review project, but I’d like to finish what I set out to do, so I’ll be writing those reviews and publishing them this week. Additionally, those three posts are great, and I want to review them so that maybe others can gain more benefit from those posts.
I walked indoors for about 30 minutes today. I did not listen to music while writing this shortform.
Be well!
Cheers,
Willa