Productive Procrastination: How to Get Things Done by Putting Off Other Things

This article discusses the author's strategy for using procrastination as a tool to stay productive. The author explains that structured procrastination involves doing marginally useful tasks instead of doing nothing, and provides several techniques for turning procrastination into productivity, including planning the rest of your day, breaking large projects into smaller pieces, cleaning something, tackling simple tasks, taking a walk or doing exercise, talking to co-workers, automating repetitive tasks, and learning about why people procrastinate. The author shares their own experiences with these strategies and invites readers to try them out for themselves.