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What are you avoiding working on?
- dmharrison 17y agoknowtu - tricky concurrency and indexing problems. Still fun though ;)
- tapostrophemo 17y agotaxes oh, I thought this was an "Ask HN"
- barry-cotter 17y agoThat econometrics project that's due next Friday mostly. Also a past examination paper I want to have done in same as practice and a Macroeconomics paper. I iz lazy.
- jodrellblank 17y agoNo you don't. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1138716 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1138716 You aren't working on it for a good reason, part of you doesn't want to. Stop describing yourself as lazy and you open up the option of finding which bit(s) of you doesn't want to work on it and why, and addressing that.
- barry-cotter 17y agoAkrasia for the win! I don't want to work on it because I can't see how to apply it now, and I'm not being paid to do it. Man, I miss getting paid.
- jodrellblank 17y agoAkrasia for the lose! Or at least, which type of akrasia? http://lesswrong.com/lw/1tu/improving_the_akrasia_hypothesis/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/1tu/improving_the_akrasia_hypothesis... You're on HN Reading plenty of things you can't apply immediately, and aren't getting paid for, so those reasons are possibly present but not sufficient.
- jodrellblank 17y agoWhen I talked to my teammate George, he mentioned off-handedly that he had fixed it. He didn’t feel any of the anguish I felt or assign me the blame I thought I deserved Quoted for suspicion of harbouring some deep and meaningful information.