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For me, procrastinating by looking at websites is usually a sign that something else is wrong, e.g. I don't really see the purpose of the task I'm supposed to be doing. When I'm excited by a task I find I don't procrastinate. Unfortunately it's not always possible to choose just the exciting tasks for my plate!

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precisely. And for me I am at my most vulnerable when I am context-switching for this reason.

One of the most important keys to keep in mind is: always have a clear, delineated next action. Such that no thought is even necessary to know what you need to do. And plan the next step out /before/ you need to perform it, not in the moment of.

drinks in manual auditing, mapping, and labeling of semantically meaningful string values for project planning and/or data analysis

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