Will_Sawin comments on Thoughts on designing policies for oneself - LessWrong

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Comment author: Will_Sawin 28 November 2012 02:36:35AM 20 points [-]

Reading this, I had a brilliant idea. Similar to taking a break from dieting one day a week, I could take a break from working (or from having to work - I can still be productive if I feel like it) one day a week. This seemed like an excellent hack to conserve willpower and reduce procrastination or, at the very lest, make my procrastination more fun because I didn't have to feel bad about not working during it.

Then I realized that I had reinvented the weekend or, more prosaically, Shabat.