I mainly made the comment because I get a huge number of false starts with things like that—I confuse a short term solution (something worth noting, but not an actual cure) with a long term one and then am glad that I didn’t post about it.
Let’s say that I won’t post a technique until a week has passed. If it’s day 6 and I haven’t posted it, it may mean the technique failed or simply be a symptom that the week didn’t pass yet. If someone didn’t operate by this restriction, I think that them not posting the technique would just be evidence that it failed—why hold it back?
Apologies, the joke was that someone who was particularly filled with akrasia would procrastinate and never actually post the akrasia-killing technique.
I didn’t get the joke. :(
I mainly made the comment because I get a huge number of false starts with things like that—I confuse a short term solution (something worth noting, but not an actual cure) with a long term one and then am glad that I didn’t post about it.
Let’s say that I won’t post a technique until a week has passed. If it’s day 6 and I haven’t posted it, it may mean the technique failed or simply be a symptom that the week didn’t pass yet. If someone didn’t operate by this restriction, I think that them not posting the technique would just be evidence that it failed—why hold it back?
Or maybe it’ll be clearer in the morning… :)
Apologies, the joke was that someone who was particularly filled with akrasia would procrastinate and never actually post the akrasia-killing technique.