cousin_it comments on Anti-akrasia remote monitoring experiment - Less Wrong

45 Post author: cousin_it 27 September 2010 11:34PM

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Comment author: sfb 28 September 2010 12:04:21AM 5 points [-]

You get several "clean" hours every day, where you either do work or stay away from the computer - no willpower required. Magic.

How do you feel about working now compared to before? Are you more enthusiastic, or more reluctant? Are you staying away from the computer as a form of procrastination instead of going to it but not working?

Comment author: cousin_it 28 September 2010 10:48:26AM *  3 points [-]

1) As far as I can tell, my feelings about work haven't changed.

2) Yes, now I sometimes walk away from the computer if I don't feel like working. But these pauses are much shorter (because online procrastination makes time pass really quickly, compared to offline), and I always end up doing something productive like writing or playing the guitar. This was actually an unexpected benefit of the practice.

Comment author: NihilCredo 28 September 2010 03:27:21PM 12 points [-]

You... you can write without a computer? WITCHCRAFT!!!