The Local Optima

The fundamental principle of optimization is you have some strategy for doing whatever it is you're going to do. You look at all the very small changes you can make and try to assess what effect they'll have, see which one is best. Do that, change your strategy a little tiny bit, hatdirection. Now just keep doing that. That's it. Tha' a procedure called gradient descent. The answer is always this: every single action is definitely going to make my life worse if i spend an hour facing up to trash instead of focusing on something more fun. So procrastination is kind of caused by being stuck in a local optimum state where everything is actually better when cleaned up