Home ยป The Phenomenology of Procrastination

with one comment

It actually took me a long time to get around to writing this post: no joke.

This random website proposes that a procrastinator experiences time like this:

Although that may technically be accurate, I don’t personally feel anything like a time distortion. Instead, I underestimate the number of tasks I want to complete (eg: packing a house) and the duration of each task. David Seah notes that procrastination can be caused by either a poor sense of time or an obsession with last-minute details. I suffer from a combination.

So although a clock based on the theory of time diagrammed above may work to increase my timeliness, it would have to be recalibrated for every deadline (things to do before I leave in the morning, things to do before coffee break, etc.). Seah has designed a much better clock: it runs fast by a random and always changing amount of time. Now I just need someone to implement it for the iPhone.

Written by Jared

June 5th, 2009 at 3:28 pm

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged with

One Response to 'The Phenomenology of Procrastination'

Subscribe to comments with RSS or TrackBack to 'The Phenomenology of Procrastination'.

  1. The trick there is that you’d need to replace the OS clock. I’m not sure that’s allowed — it’s Apple’s sandbox, they can opt not to let you play.

    Jack

    12 Jun 09 at 1:01 pm

Leave a Reply

Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting.