Life is never easy with a monkey in your head.
Why Procrastinators Procrastinate
The full story about why procrastinators routinely ruin their own lives.
How to Beat Procrastination
Part 2. Where does a procrastinator go wrong and how can you actually improve your procrastination habits?
Procrastination: It's pretty much all in the mind
Scans show differences in the brains of those who love to put things offs compared with the "doers".
The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on What We Set Out to Do and What to Do About It
Plus, 3 strategies to help you start beating procrastination now.
Let’s hear it for the four-hour working day
Are you working your brain too hard? Take it easy – like Charles Darwin, Alice Munro or Thomas Jefferson
The genie knows, but doesn't care — LessWrong
Followup to: The Hidden Complexity of Wishes, Ghosts in the Machine, Truly Part of You …
Grady Booch on Twitter / X
Let’s be very clear: there is value in automating tedious and repetitive and dangerous tasks; there is value in delegating certain work to our machines that can do the work tirelessly and much faster.But at the same time, let us remember that there is value in the activity of…— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) October 3, 2026
The Jevons Paradox of AI - Wesley's notes
Why AI can make us more productive but will never save us time
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Getting Ahead By Being Inefficient
Inefficient does not mean ineffective, and it is certainly not the same as lazy. You get things done – just not in the most effective way possible. You’re a bit sloppy, and use more energy. But don’t feel bad about it. There is real value in not being the best.
Life With Machines | Substack
A cultural movement (and show) for people who want to live well with AI, not just endure it. Bringing clarity, critique, curiosity (and some comedy) to the AI discourse. A production by Baratunde. Click to read Life With Machines, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
Netigen
Take a glance at a life chock full of second-guesses and the occasional dramatic pause.
The Fabric and the Brain
Articulating agent ecologies with high-personality planetary computation
The Key to Act Two
How do you top life rules ? With a life script, that's how. Here's an absolutely minimalist 2-step one. Guaranteed to work for 90% of humanity. Across all…
The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired
On reward functions, dopamine, and what it actually feels like when the code starts writing itself
