May 17, 2008
“ the ancient Egyptian language had two verbs corresponding to procrastinate. One verb referred to the useful avoidance of unnecessary or impulsive efforts, and the other to the harmful shirking of tasks needed for subsistence, such as tilling the soil at just the right time during the Nile’s annual flood cycle.
(via The more industrialized and technologized a society becomes the more it has to grapple with procrastination as a problematic notion.) (via thatguyben)