Finally figured out why idling and wasting time is so hard in pandemic time. When you goof off and procrastinate for an hour, your work is pushed an hour out but the waste-time hour inserted isn’t taken from the tail end of your operating horizon. The NPV is near zero.
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This is a non-hedonistic response to a sense of foreshortened future. I’m not a hedonist but I suspect hedonists at some level of foreshortening begin frenzied partying. “Last meal” effect.
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I feel like this tweet is giving people more credit for sophisticated unconscious mental discounting than any of us really deserve.
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