... to accurately gauge how long each task really took. I was overbooking myself, and that’s a crime against productivity and self-respect. Keep a written list somewhere. Whether you do it in a planner, a set of notecards, a ... an addiction. There’s even a cutesy hackerish Internet name for it — productivity pr0n. And just like real porn, it’s … seductive. Very seductive, ...

... know better. So I’ve been actively trying to overcome that recently, and I think doing so really comes down to: Just doing the damn thing. It’s so much less daunting once you actually sit down and start doing it. One productivity pr0n trick I saw regarding this was to lie to yourself that you’ll sit down and do something for just 5 minutes. ...