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Re: procrastination

On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Margaret Mary Mazzolini wrote:

I was thinking tonight, as I faced up to doing some more work - Friday
nights are surely meant for better things (remember the time zones! It's
Friday night here) - but allowed myself the pleasure of trolling through
the email first, that I am definitely an email junkie. Partly its
because of email's ability to distract me from dreaded work.

The engineering community has dubbed this "Task Avoidance." Seriously.
It's part of "management-speak"! Normal people procrastinate, while
engineers initiate Task Avoidance mode.


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