I don't think it works for all types of procrastination, but I think it may work well for some. I doubt it will get me to write any of my referee reports. However, I think it will get me to write about my own work. That is exciting! After all, it's one of the supposedly main things we do as academics, RESEARCH, but more often than not it gets sent to the dustbin in favor of other more immediate tasks such as reviewing.
That said, the original enthusiastic recommender of all this is a grad student who likely doesn't yet have that much refereeing and student advising to do so the starting point is different. (No, I'm not suggesting grad students have nothing on their plate so they shouldn't have problems. I'm just saying it's different. And yes, it gets worse.)
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Posted by Turquoise Stuff to academicsecret at 8/08/2006 01:41:35 PM
