shminux comments on Open Thread, Apr. 20 - Apr. 26, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 20 April 2015 11:03:56PM 2 points [-]

Tried something like that. Was unable to do anything productive after 5 hours without a real deadline.

Comment author: Viliam 21 April 2015 09:10:11AM *  2 points [-]

Could you hire a cheap online personal assistant that would give you the deadlines? Like, you would make a plans for the whole week in advance, give those plans to the assistant, and then during the week the assistant would role-play being your manager. (Using another person as proxy for your planning self.)

Comment author: shminux 21 April 2015 04:25:39PM 2 points [-]

If it doesn't feel real, it's easy to ignore.