Emile comments on Share Your Anti-Akrasia Tricks - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Emile 16 May 2009 08:23:38AM 8 points [-]

For my personal programming projects, I keep a small text file of "Next Action" - small, concrete tasks that can be done in little time. That means I don't spend much time agonizing over what to do next, and can start get back to work relatively quickly after a pause. I regularly purge the list of stuff I don't really want to do, or of stuff that's too complex.

I also avoid IM, and turn off email notifications.