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I have been intending to write this essay
for months. Why am I finally doing it? Because I finally found some
uncommitted time? Wrong. I have papers to grade, textbook orders to fill
out, an NSF proposal to referee, dissertation drafts to read. I am working
on this essay as a way of not doing all of those things. This is the
essence of what I call structured procrastination, an amazing strategy I
have discovered that converts procrastinators into effective human beings,
respected and admired for all that they can accomplish and the good use
they make of time.

As a followup to this summer’s procrastination
discussion, I offer for your consideration Stanford Professor John Perry’s
essay on “Structured
Procrastination”.