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gwern comments on How to measure procrastination? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gwern 15 February 2012 02:19:54PM *  4 points [-]

A daily checklist, percentage done; turn on something like Leechblock, but only the recording options and not the block options and measure time spent on 'procrastinating' websites; use arbtt to gather statistics to measure interventions; calculate average longevity of items on your TODO list; ...

Not seeing any suggestions from you - did you spend 5 minutes thinking about it before asking here?

Comment author: rlp10 15 February 2012 02:55:30PM 5 points [-]

Thank you for your thoughts.

Not seeing any suggestions from you - did you spend 5 minutes thinking about it before asking here?

Yes, I've spent some time thinking and researching this question, including looking at this research paper and this survey.

Because I didn't want ideas similar to my own, I didn't initially list my own ideas for fear of priming the responses.

I recognise with hindsight that my post gives the impression that I was unwilling to help myself - I could have been clearer.

Finally, given all the discussion on anti-akrasia and procrastination, I thought that others may have actual experience to share.