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crossroadsguy 3 days ago

How would one go about dealing with that kind of procrastination? Or is it not handling distraction?

pessimizer 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

https://hillaryrettigproductivity.com/the-seven-secrets-of-t...

"Procrastination, perfectionism and writer's block are not moral flaws; nor are they caused by laziness, lack of discipline or lack of commitment. They are habits rooted in fear and scarcity - and the great news is that once we start alleviating our fears and resourcing ourselves abundantly, our procrastination and related problems are often remarkably easily solved."

It's directed at writers, but it's really for all perfectionists.

xg15 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Well, I'm sure you could build an amazing anti-procrastination app that has pluggable anti-procrastination strategies and uses the multi-armed bandit algorithm, as well as an RL-trained RNN to discover your personal, optimal schedule of anti-procrastination interventions, while automatically prompting an LLM to devise new strategies as soon as the old ones begin to lose their effectiveness and also giving you an option to post your anti-procrastination progress online and watch the anti-procrastination achievements of your friends or invite them to go on a virtual anti-procrastination quest together...