reading a how-to book doesn't help much unless you actually do what the book recommends. That's why it's such an important intervention to figure out How To Actually Do The Stuff You Know You Should Be Doing — also known as How to Beat Procrastination.

I'm confused. You seem to be suggesting that procrastination is one of the main "biases" we need to overcome (or, as I would put it, that the ability to beat procrastination is one of the main "practical skills" we need to develop). But aaronsw disagrees that this is what you yourself believe: "As lukeprog himself says, it wasn't lack of intelligence or resources or akrasia that kept Eliezer from doing these things, 'it was a gap in general rationality.'" (emphasis added) Could you clarify?