Maura sent me this amusing piece on Structured Procrastination -- the method of procrastinating by doing other less important tasks instead of what really needs to get done. The writer, a Stanford Professor, claims that you can get a reputation for being an overachiever, all the while neglecting the items at the top of your list, and the trick to success at this game is finding the right tasks to assign importance to. He has some other essays about small discoveries he has made, most likely composed when he's avoiding writing a serious philosophical paper for a respected journal.

Blogging is a great thing to do when you are avoiding doing other, more important things.

LINK | 11:13 AM | TB

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