The most useful article I saw on HN about this subject was Structured Procrastination (http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/ http://www.structuredprocrastin

The most useful article I saw on HN about this subject was Structured Procrastination (http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/ http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/). I've found that structured procrastination is extremely helpful in "just getting started" and once you are rolling you aren't procrastinating any more. The basic theory to sum up, is to have some that feels giant and important and impending to avoid which allows you to work on other stuff to avoid it. The trick is to feel pressured to avoid something that really doesn't matter so much, even though it appears to on the surface. It's total cognitive hacking.