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by aaron695 849 days ago
This site is bizarre.

If you look at their stuff on addiction, they have no grounding in current theory. And by current theory, that's from science to religious ideas like prayer, nothing they talk about matches anything in the world from hard numbers to mysticism. They also have no explanation why they break with all the current theories or where their theories come from.

By now they are a HN institution, but I'd be very wary following their advice if you medically depend on it working.

deprocrastination.co is like a surreal movie, I think I like it, but I'm glad sites like these are not everywhere, like Scientology, fun because it's different. OP you should also create a new religion and run a site, you'd be good I think. That's not facetious-ism, but you'd have to be morally ok with it.

[edit] As an example of what I'm saying related to this article - "Imperfect action > perfect nothing" has no real meaning. It's simplified to "action > nothing"

What would be meaningful is "wrong action > perfect nothing" or "action > planning"

But as you can see HN eats up stuff like "Imperfect action > perfect nothing" It's good writing.

2 comments

I think you may be right about the rest, but I don't understand your last point. "Imperfect action > perfect nothing" is not meaningless and does not simplify to "action > nothing". It's just a different (not nearly as evocative, IMO) way to say "don't let perfect be the enemy of good". And I think this is indeed an important point that chronic procrastinators constantly struggle with.
What do they say about addiction? They've got so many articles on it.