{"id":2056,"date":"2005-12-30T08:48:17","date_gmt":"2005-12-30T08:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2005-12-30T08:48:17","modified_gmt":"2005-12-30T08:48:17","slug":"procrastination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2056","title":{"rendered":"Procrastination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two timely and useful essays:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul Graham: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/procrastination.html\">Good and Bad Procrastination<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>The most dangerous form of procrastination is unacknowledged type-B procrastination, because it doesn&#8217;t feel like procrastination. You&#8217;re &#8220;getting things done.&#8221; Just the wrong things.<br \/>\nAny advice about procrastination that concentrates on crossing things off your to-do list is not only incomplete, but positively misleading, if it doesn&#8217;t consider the possibility that the to-do list is itself a form of type-B procrastination. In fact, possibility is too weak a word. Nearly everyone&#8217;s is. Unless you&#8217;re working on the biggest things you could be working on, you&#8217;re type-B procrastinating, no matter how much you&#8217;re getting done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Richard Hamming: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/hamming.html\">You and Your Research<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>What are the most important problems in your field?\n<li>Are you working on one of them?\n<li>Why not?<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two timely and useful essays: Paul Graham: Good and Bad Procrastination: The most dangerous form of procrastination is unacknowledged type-B procrastination, because it doesn&#8217;t feel like procrastination. You&#8217;re &#8220;getting things done.&#8221; Just the wrong things. Any advice about procrastination that concentrates on crossing things off your to-do list is not only incomplete, but positively misleading, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}