danarm comments on Akrasia Tactics Review - Less Wrong

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Comment author: danarm 01 March 2010 08:54:49AM 8 points [-]

Writing each step you do on paper, while doing it: +8. This helps me when I can't concentrate, when I'm distracted.

I simply write what I'm doing (the current step, or the next step), on paper. If for a step (which I have already written on paper), I find that I must first do a sub-step, then I write the sub-step. The result is a log of what I've done and what I'm doing.

The great advantage of this is that if I get distracted, I can return to just where I left off, by just reading the last line or the last few lines I written on paper.

Comment author: Vladimir_Golovin 03 March 2010 10:04:08AM *  1 point [-]

I tried this technique at work for two days, and so far the results are encouraging.

Funny thing: the main problem I have with this technique is the need for handwriting -- I feel that it is important to have the state log in a hand-written form, as opposed to, say, a .txt file, but I hate handwriting!

Anyway, I'll continue using it.