[sublinear]

I have determined that my unproductivity is just "warm up" time.

If something is due tuesday I'm guaranteed to spend most of monday angry about all the meetings "in my way" knowing damn well even if I didn't have the meetings I'd just be ruminating about the remaining work instead of actually doing it.

As a result, monday night is when everything gets done. This warm up dramatically increases the quality of the work delivered.

[sokoloff]

This very much resonates with me and I find it ridiculously frustrating about myself. I can more easily deliver well-received work at the last minute than I can a steady pace of work that would be sometimes higher quality because of the opportunity to put it down for a few days and then review and improve at a more leisurely pace.

But the procrastination monkey inside skips most of the chances to do the latter.

Ironically, not having a deadline at all has given me a chance to deliver some of my best work (or work I’m most proud of), but I can also understand why a world with no time commitments wouldn’t actually work globally better.