#procrastination

2025-04-30

Wednesday again. The evening that I set aside to work on a particular project...

Maybe just one episode of #deaddeaddemons first. Just one. What's one little episode?

#anime #procrastination #deaddeaddemonsdededededestruction

Anthony Acciolyanthony@accioly.social
2025-04-30

1/2 - Hey Fedi. It has been a while since I last posted anything here, so... Story time:

A few months ago, I really got into a productivity app called Forest. It basically blocks apps on your phone so you don’t procrastinate or get distracted. It gamifies focus by blocking your phone while you “plant virtual trees”. If you use your phone, the tree you’re planting withers… and nobody wants to kill a virtual tree, right? 🤣

#forest #focud #app #procrastination

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-04-30

🎉🚀 Behold! Another riveting tale of a self-proclaimed cyber genius who "accidentally" discovered a while procrastinating on their homework. 🧠💻 Brace yourself for the epic of setting up the world's most "complex" environment, which was clearly the real villain all along. 🙄🔧
hoefler.dev/articles/vsock.html

Craig Constantinecraig@constantine.name
2025-04-30

What if I just did the thing?

Another interpretation is that everyday life, for most people, is an untapped gold mine. Certain undone tasks represent huge gains, waiting just a short time away, behind one session of elbow grease. Even ten or fifteen minutes of directed effort, judiciously applied, can improve your life far more than the wages you earn for the same period.

~ David Cain, from Fix Three Broken Things

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It’s interesting to note that I only just read this, this evening… after fix a table on my patio today. Yesterday, I grouped together a pile of errands—four different stops with multiple “I need…” for different chores and repairs at each stop. The table is a hulking cedar and steel pipe beast. I need some wood putty, and spar varnish. Today, I got out the sander and mixing little work sessions, with other things, I worked through various sandpaper grits, wood putty iterations, and 3 coats of spar varnish. I did an “80%” jobs at every step of the way. By tomorrow it will be completely dry and ready for use again. I use it every day spring through fall, and this couple hours of work will now yield—probably—3 more seasons of unfussy use.

I also used the rest of the little can of varnish to slap a coat on the garden gate.

What’s next?

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#DavidCain #GettingLessDone #Procrastination

2025-04-29

@artemis
After I gave it to you, I finally moved a bookcase that was propping the door open to my office next to my desk. Then I could close the door. Take the light canceling curtain off the window so I could see. Take the books off of my desk and put them in the bookcase, and clean all the cat hair off of my chair.

Use mind magic to solve mind problems. I hope it works for you too.
#procrastination

Pocket Office LLCpocketoffice
2025-04-28

So not the Art of War, but the “War of Art” by Steven Pressfield; have you read it? The goal in life, in business, is to follow Resistance. Whatever you’re procrastinating, avoiding, doubting or ignoring is likely the key piece to a better version of what you’ve been building.

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-04-25

🎉 Wow, what a revelation! Setting up a MacBook is apparently as complex as brain surgery, but don't worry, our hero discovered a magical "Brewfile" after days of intense . 🚀 Who knew setting up a laptop could be so groundbreaking and worth a whole article? 🤯
catalins.tech/how-i-setup-new-

2025-04-24

#makers, #coders of the #fediverse, how do you escape the trap of "not doing the thing?"

I spend my whole day at work with ideas for one of my projects popping into my head that I'm excited to implement, but then I get home and play a video game and watch Youtube until I go to bed. Why is it so hard to get started?

Any tips and tricks for making the on-ramp back to where you left off as smooth as possible?

#PersonalProjects #Motivation #Procrastination

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-04-23

🤔💡 Ah, the age-old art of reinventing procrastination! Grab some popcorn and watch as Y Combinator heroically teaches us to dodge "tarpit" ideas—because apparently, is just a concept from an alternate universe. 📺🛋️
ycombinator.com/library/Ij-tar

IndieAuthors.Social Newsindieauthornews@indieauthors.social
2025-04-22

How To Rally Imaginary Friends To Help You Defeat Creative Blocks

Use creative rehearsals to stop procrastinating and start writing your fiction story Continue reading on The Writing Cooperative »
writingcooperative.com/how-to-

#writersblocksolutions #writersblock #ideas #inspiration #procrastination
@indieauthors

Coffeedate with ADHDadhd_coffee
2025-04-20

I had a lot to do for work this week, but during the break I cleaned my shower cubicle, cleaned grout and then reorganized my bookshelf.

The image shows a social media post with a dark background. The post is from a user named "jennifer opal" with the handle "[@]_jenniferopal." The text in the post reads: "Anyone else with ADHD doing something they shouldn’t be doing right now to distract themselves from important work they should be doing but thinking about it overwhelms you?" The text is in white, and there is an emoji of a pointing finger at the end. The user's profile picture is a circular image of a woman with dark skin and long, curly hair. The overall layout is simple, with the text centered and the profile picture on the left.
the_adventures_of_an_introvertthe_adventures_of_an_introvert@mindly.social
2025-04-20

We usually associate procrastination with unpleasant tasks, but I often put things off when good things are on the horizon. The prospect of achieving success or an improvement in my circumstances can cause me to over-analyse everything and find reasons to delay proceedings, which can hold me back in life...

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#anxiety #procrastination #adhd #neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic

Jess.a.createsJessAdams
2025-04-19

Productivity is a mindset… and mine just hit snooze again.

Lydia Schochlydiaschoch
2025-04-16

When I was a kid, my family knew someone who purposefully waited until the last possible second to file their tax return. As in, he’d mail it off just minutes before the post office closed on April 15.

I haven’t seen him for many years, but I stll think of him every April 15 and hope he makes the deadline yet again. 😂

I use the co-working platform focusmate.com to do the boring admin and finance jobs I hate for the community project I run. Idea is you briefly chat with your focusmate, say what you want to work on, then catch up for a minute or two at the end of the session to report on progress. Can be computer work, tidying, meditation, exercise, cooking, music practice or anything. One of the great joys is the amazing diversity of people you meet and often some fascinating conversations. This week I have worked with an inspiring junior barrister from Manchester, various PhD students from US, Europe and India, a pianist in Seoul and a charity manager in Cambridge. Realise co-working online isn't everyone's cup of tea but I love it!
#productivity #coworking #procrastination #GettingThingsDone

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-04-14

🤖✨ Oh joy, another thrilling saga: someone discovered how to make go fullscreen—by script! Because clearly, what the world needs is yet another way to procrastinate on GitHub. 🙄🚀
github.com/windingwind/zotero-

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