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It's amazing what kind of epic projects a thesis can motivate you to take on (rather than your thesis).
by juujian 3y ago
It's amazing what kind of epic projects a thesis can motivate you to take on (rather than your thesis).
- i-use-nixos-btw 3y agoI balanced a consulting job and my PhD, so thesis time was incredibly productive. When I didn’t want to do one, I’d become very productive on the other, and when I got tired of that, I’d switch and get very productive again.
- eru 3y agoCompare https://structuredprocrastination.com/ https://structuredprocrastination.com/ > ``. . . anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment." -- Robert Benchley, in Chips off the Old Benchley, 1949
- pezezin 3y agoI learnt to solve the Rubik's cube (actually the Rubik's revenge, the 4x4x4 variant) during the last month of my undergraduate thesis...
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agoFor some reason the last “x4” confused me but then I remembered the z-axis. Then it had me thinking how a 4x4x3 Rubik’s Rectangular Cuboid would work. It can’t be turned 90 degrees on one axis. Anyway, for the next time you have a thesis to avoid, maybe.
- twic 3y agoThinking about it, i suppose what i actually did to avoid working on my thesis (and pay the bills) was get a part-time programming job, and then that job became full-time, and i never finished the thesis. So, in a sense, fifteen years later, i am still procrastinating.