19 May 2009
In the beginning, there was white space

Filed under life

short intro

I’m a 23 year old guy. My parents are Finnish, but I’m grown up in Sweden and currently living in the vicinity of Stockholm. I’ve begun a lot of college courses, but haven’t finished many. I have a eerily tendency to drop out after a while and my CV resembles a black hole. I’ve got lots of on-going projects, few of them are progressing .

yet another productivity blog?

Not really. The name of the blog is written slightly tongue in cheek. I’m not too fond of bullet-pointed lists with rehashed productivity “tips” so there won’t be too many of those on this blog.

During the following months I’ll be exploring the subject of procrastination, particularly more chronic and destructive versions of the phenomenon.  I’ll be using this place as a repository for my thoughts, insights and notes. I’m writing first and foremost for myself — to clarify my thinking, to improve my writing.

deconstructing procrastination

I’m pretty confident that procrastination is a solvable problem (if you consider it to be a problem — I’m of the view that it’s more like a symptom). It’s not an inherent character trait, it’s not about laziness, and it’s not something that has to be a permanent part of your life.

Procrastination is the result of thought and behavioral patterns — patterns that can be changed. That’s what this blog will be about, at least initially– changing patterns.

Most blogs on productivity seem to be focused on what you should be doing. But if you’ve spent more than a few hours on productivity blogs, you already know what you should be doing.  I’ll try to look at how you go from being somebody who self-identifies as a procrastinator, as a person who doesn’t get things done, to a person who’s got his shit handled and who considers himself to be productive.

When I’m talking about productivity, I’m not talking about cranking out as many widgets as possible. Rather, I’m talking about creating stuff that makes the world a little — or a lot — better.

2009-05-19  ::  Matti Kolu