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Thanks for sharing. How long have you been using this?
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10-Step Anti-Procrastination Checklist
You're welcome! I've been using this checklist for a few months, though I've been on the road traveling for much of it. I finally applied the checklist steps to posting the checklist to LessWrong.
I've gone through it enough that I can usually remember each of the 10 steps even when I'm not at my desk. That seems like a good sign that it can carry over to other contexts. (Though I acknowledge that the process of having created it myself probably made it easier for me to remember.)
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10-Step Anti-Procrastination Checklist
Regarding the music: I found video game soundtracks to be especially perfect - after all, they're designed to be background music. But I think there's more to it than that. I've had years of conditioning such that when I hear the Warcraft II soundtrack I immediately get into a mindset of intense concentration and happiness.
Obviously it depends on your tastes and whether you have attachments to particular video games, but here are my favorites:
- Warcraft 2 Soundtrack: http://bit.ly/1081t8K
- Braid Soundtrack: http://bit.ly/11IFF6L (Fantastic music with a range of emotions.)
- Braid Music Mod by Schwab: http://bit.ly/10BNcN7 (Excellent fan-made music for the game Braid.)
- Might and Magic VI: Mandate of Heaven Soundtrack: http://bit.ly/W7CFan
- Heroes of Might and Magic IV: http://bit.ly/149y0vn
- Planescape Torment Soundtrack: http://bit.ly/10J2CQw
(non-video game music that go into the rotation)
- Any Ratatat playlist: http://bit.ly/10vLjW8
- Yo-Yo Ma Bach Cello Suites: http://bit.ly/IPl7h0 (Two hours of Yo Yo Ma cello.)
- Two Steps From Hell, Invincible: http://bit.ly/110Nehm (Epic.)
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Bookshelves
Most fantasy books might be Gryffindor, but A Game of Thrones? Totally Slytherin.
My thinking for Game of Thrones belonging to Gryffindor (though at this point it might just be cognitive dissonance, so please let me know if it sounds right) is that the first book - A Game of Thrones - most heavily features Ned Stark, the paragon of honor and principle. I'm wishing that I had put another Song of Fire and Ice book on the Slytherin shelf to show contrast...
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Bookshelves
Why only chapters 1-17 of HPMOR?
That's all that's in the printed paperback version that I have - I think Eliezer is working on publishing a more comprehensive volume, but this is all I have.
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Meetup : Columbus or Cincinnati Meetup
I'm in! I live in Columbus, so would love a meetup here.
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Skepticon IV meetup: planning
I'll be at Skepticon - I'm moderating the "death" panel with Eliezer and Julia (and Greta Christina and James Croft)!
From knowing the speakers and backgrounds, I also recommend:
1) Julia's talk "The Straw Vulcan" on the interaction between rationality and emotion, 2) Spencer Greenberg's talk, Self-Skepticism: What the Tools of Science Tell Us About Our Thoughts, Beliefs, and Decisions and 3) Hemant Mehta's "The Need for More Critical Thinking in Math Education"
These, along with my panel, should all be of interest to the rationalist community. See you there!
However, if I were the OP, I think that I would be hurt reading your response. Having put work into a post including original cites and examples, I could easily interpret your post as dismissing mine as inferior or worthless compared to his.
It's pretty much customary on LW to provide links to related articles; doing so shouldn't be interpreted as a dismissal. Though it might be defecting by accident in some other context, that's not really the case here.
Thanks for the clarification - this is my first post on LW and wasn't sure how to interpret the "link" comments.
As it was, I'd upvoted them because I appreciate knowing what else I'd probably enjoy reading - there's so much material and it really helps having you guys pointing to relevant articles. It's good to know they're intended that way, and not as admonitions for not already including those links.
Again, everyone, thanks for making me feel welcome!
A fine sentiment, but the emoticon takes something from it.
Indeed - when I was young, we didn't use emoticons. We typed "emote smile" and let the MUD client fill in the rest.
... Too nerdy?
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Overcoming the Curse of Knowledge
They weren't playing the game right. The way to correctly play the game, especially among siblings, is for a person to always pick the same song. For example, if I'm tapping, I'm tapping 'Jingle Bells'. And we have a near 100% success rate. (It is not quite 100% due to the initial learning curve, but the success rate then steadily improves over time.)
That said... I'm tapping a tune as I type on this keyboard. Can you guess it??
Love it!
That brings to mind a fantastic set of posts on Mind Your Decisions (game theory blog) about focal points and coordination problems. If there's anything identifying about one of the songs - even being first on the list - it's a good idea to choose that one.
... Man, I bet psych researchers hate people like us.
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Geoff Anders' procrastination advice includes a mild extension to 5, namely sometimes you ask yourself why you're doing the task and you legitimately don't have a good reason. In that case, you should wholeheartedly abandon the task instead of procrastinating. This should also happen occasionally.
Excellent point, thanks! I'd been using this mostly for work projects that I'd already decided were worth doing but found myself procrastinating, but that's a great addendum.
I'm in the process of learning more about Geoff and Leverage's Goal Factoring, so that might help me refine the list (or replace it with something better.)