NewMexiKen is reposting this item from 2005 for those of you who haven’t gotten around to reading it yet.
An essay on Good and Bad Procrastination from Paul Graham:
So the question is not how to avoid procrastination, but how to procrastinate well.
There are three variants of procrastination, depending on what you do instead of working on something: you could work on (a) nothing, (b) something less important, or (c) something more important. That last type, I’d argue, is good procrastination.
Key quote: “What’s the best thing you could be working on, and why aren’t you?”