A fuckton of EAs struggle with procrastination, at least 10% but probably more like 20-30%. Funders tend to underestimate the prevalence because it’s in nobody’s best interests to admit it to them.
Interventions work fast and are cheap. There’s no overhead because you can just do them via Zoom. We already know what works, so you don’t even have to innovate.
Funders I’ve spoken to have tended to think that it’s only the least productive EAs who procrastinate. I’ve worked with a bunch of people working in high prestige EA jobs, including dozens of charity founders, and can confirm this is categorically untrue. It’s not that highly productive people don’t procrastinate, it’s that they have other strengths that counteract the weakness.
A fuckton of EAs struggle with procrastination, at least 10% but probably more like 20-30%. Funders tend to underestimate the prevalence because it’s in nobody’s best interests to admit it to them.
Interventions work fast and are cheap. There’s no overhead because you can just do them via Zoom. We already know what works, so you don’t even have to innovate.
Funders I’ve spoken to have tended to think that it’s only the least productive EAs who procrastinate. I’ve worked with a bunch of people working in high prestige EA jobs, including dozens of charity founders, and can confirm this is categorically untrue. It’s not that highly productive people don’t procrastinate, it’s that they have other strengths that counteract the weakness.