A blog about not getting things done
Posted in "work ethic", idling, relaxation, sloth, unproductivity on May 30th, 2007
Britain is becoming a nation of aimless internet users, spending an average of two full working days a month surfing the web without any real purpose, a study claims.
The English language has acquired a new verb: to wilf. Wilf is coined from the phrase that many surfers utter when they realise that they’ve just been […]
Posted in gtd, lifehacks, productivity, unproductivity on Apr 10th, 2007
Think of the five most important things that you have to do. Write them down on a piece of paper. It will be useful if you try and prioritise these tasks – write them down, most important task first. Make a real effort to express each task as a single action that can be done […]
Posted in idling, productivity, sleep, slow, unproductivity on Mar 11th, 2007
There’s a worrying cult at work in the world. It proselytizes at seminars, and through innocent looking web sites. It spreads its insidious message through books that are shelved in ordinary bookshops, where even children could see them.
You can tell its adherents by their pallor, their bleary eyed thousand yard stare, the stains on their […]
Posted in idling, productivity, sloth, unproductivity on Mar 4th, 2007
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time”
(Bertrand Russell)
The Sloth Ethic is dedicated – in a lackadaisical, slipshod sort of way – to the idea that many of us don’t spend enough quality time not getting things done.
I posted sporadically on a blog with the same name a little while ago, which mostly reflected […]