Be Like John: Master Of Productive Procrastination

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Be Like John: Master Of Productive Procrastination

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When faced with actual work, the programmer's brain immediately activates its highest priority function: procrastination.exe. Nothing says "I'm being productive" quite like spending four hours restructuring code that already works while your actual tasks multiply in the background. The refactoring rabbit hole—where deadlines go to die and meetings get mysteriously "forgotten." The beautiful irony is that we genuinely convince ourselves it's necessary work. "I can't possibly fix those bugs until I've rewritten this entire class using the latest design pattern I read about 20 minutes ago!"

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