New Yorker

I found this article in THE NEW YORKER, that I read for today's procrastination (see what I did there?).
My favorite part was

You may have thought, the last time you blew off work on a presentation to watch “How I Met Your Mother,” that you were just slacking. But from another angle you were actually engaging in a practice that illuminates the fluidity of human identity and the complicated relationship human beings have to time. Indeed, one essay, by the economist George Ainslie, a central figure in the study of procrastination, argues that dragging our heels is “as fundamental as the shape of time and could well be called the basic impulse.”

So yeah, that's what I'm going to go with. "Stop yelling Boss, playing solitaire  illuminates the fluidity of my human identity!" :-P
Go read the rest of the article if you have an important deadline coming up 

Is procrastination evil?

When you google the word "procrastination", thousand of results will show up explaining why it is bad and a variety of methods in order to beat it. Prioritizing and getting things done are the most popular keywords in those articles. But have you considered that procrastination might, in fact, be less evil than we originally thought it would be? My good friend Rosenred suggested this article from Lifehacker to me that supports my belief that a moderate amount of procrastination is actually productive and too much of prioritizing can lead to a state where you are constantly running in panic without any time to breath. So I agree with the article's author, I've been there and trust me, it's not a fun place to be...

Welcome to THE ART & SCIENCE OF PROCRASTINATION

Art by Pete Joison

Procrastination refers to the act of replacing high-priority actions with tasks of lower priority, or doing something from which one derives enjoyment, and thus putting off important tasks to a later time. (Wikipedia)

The art of procrastination:  When you master procrastination well enough to know exactly when to screw off or work. You also know how to set things up so that you appear to be working, but really your just playing Tetris, looking at porn, etc. (Urban Dictionary)

The science of procrastination: This guy wins an Ig Nobel for admitting in public that he is a procrastinator and figuring a way of beating it. Good for him!

Procrastination.

Let’s face it. We all do it. It helps us clean our houses just before an important deadline, it urges us to call that long lost friend of ours when we should be making work related calls and it gives sparks for reigniting of our creative fire the moment someone requires for the most mundane task to be done asap.

So, want to learn new ways of procrastinating? Or tips in order to make your procrastination undetectable? Or maybe prove to people that caught you procrastinating that a flash game can be in fact, very productive?

Well, you’ve come to the right place!

Very fittingly this blog was conceived during a game of BEJEWELED, when the author of this post was supposed to be working on making this blog happen.

So, enjoy that stolen leisure time and let THE ART & SCIENCE OF PROCRASTINATION help you make the most of it, which should be exactly nothing. :)