There were several good HN conversations on this, back when HN was "young", if anyone cares to look for them. (Unfortunately, I've lost the references I saved.

There were several good HN conversations on this, back when HN was "young", if anyone cares to look for them. (Unfortunately, I've lost the references I saved.) (I don't mean to be ironic; I just can't justify the time/effort to dig for them, right now. But I thought they were useful, when I encountered them.) EDIT: To clarify, I meant procrastination and "structured procrastination" generally, not just -- but also not excluding -- procrastination and perfectionism. Also, I'm not comfortable with my vague "go search" suggestion, so here's a least a minimal start: https://encrypted.google.com/search?&q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.structuredprocrastination.com%2F*&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq= https://encrypted.google.com/search?&q=site%3Anews.ycomb... which turns up, for just one quickly identified example, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=579979 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=579979