One of the problems that exacerbates procrastination is the feeling that you have lots of different things to do and no clear sense of which matter more, when they should be done, etc.

Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.

In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.

Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.

Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.

Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

There does seem to be some evidence that as people get older, they procrastinate less, perhaps because they feel the pressure of time more.