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Issue #106: Why do we procrastinate?
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Issue #106: Why do we procrastinate?

With insights from Adam Grant and Oliver Burkeman. Plus, my personal go-to forms of time-wasting, ranked worst to best.

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Mar 06, 2025
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Making paper planes doesn’t actually feature on my list, but it should.

Procrastination is a more or less universal affliction. Even before smartphones blighted our world, we found a way to doing it. Mozart apparently put off writing compositions by playing billiards, while the 14th Dalai Lama spoke about his battle with time-management in his ‘lazy’ stu…

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