“The most dangerous form of procrastination is unacknowledged type-B procrastination [putting off important things to do unimportant things], because it doesn't feel like procrastination. You're "getting things done."”

—  Paul Graham

Just the wrong things.
"Good And Bad Procrastination"], December 2005

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English programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist 1964

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