tfw when you need to be in deadline mode to finish something but no natural deadlines in sight 😕 have you solved this yet?
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Nope. No way to fake a deadline. Like setting your watch 10 mins fast to be on time ... you can't fool yourself.
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Links to any solid research on psychology of deadlines? Do probabilistic deadlines work? ("earthquake prep: do it before next big one hits")
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Probabilistic is an interesting idea. How to prioritize defusing a ticking time bomb, given chance of explosion & resulting destruction?
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Ticking time bomb is a bad metaphor since that has a deterministic blow-up time.
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Paging ... how do you make a project SMART when there is no natural deadline? Fake deadlines don't work.
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Key is to realize ALL deadlines are fake. They are all arbitrary, invented, human fabrications. Knowing this, you can get creative
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Nearly all research is either "deadlines are horrible" or "deadlines can be useful;" all can be explained by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerkes%E2
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I think the Beeminder blog has content that should be relevant to your interests. They really geek out about this: blog.beeminder.com/hardsoon/
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