Dr. Dave F. Davidson 🚢

I write about productivity grounded in meaningfulness. Philosophy college prof since 2011. New book, "The Psychology of Procrastination"

[Dr. Dave F. Davidson 🚢 @drdavefdavidson]

I did the proverbial 10,000 hours on the psychology of procrastination. My book is overflowing with helpful, science-based strategies for improving productivity. Including a playbook for setting up your home office.
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[Dr. Dave F. Davidson 🚢 @drdavefdavidson]

BTS: The Ancient Greeks had No Concept of Free Will Because They had No Concept of Will, by @davidjfrost https://t.co/Q9MNoF62oR

[David J. Frost, Ph.D. @davidjfrost]

My best illustration of my idea about knowing without believing. The Muller-Lyer optical illusion. You can convince yourself of (you can *know*) the truth that the parallel lines are the same length. But you cannot get your perceptual system to *believe* they are the same length.

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"Sleepwalking Towards Bethlehem," by David J. Frost, published in The Missouri Review, July 2026, by @davidjfrost https://t.co/jSnK1GbSoR

[Dr. Dave F. Davidson 🚢 @drdavefdavidson]

Think about it. The reason functionalists think a bucket of bolts can be conscious is because they think humans are buckets o bolts.

[David J. Frost, Ph.D. @davidjfrost]

The reason the functionalists in this article think a bucket-a-bolts could be conscious is b/c they think humans are basically buckets-a-bolts too. Said w/o malice. We're buckets-of-bolts & we're conscious. What be the relevant diff tween carbon & silicon?
https://t.co/Qp9dvvSTm9

[Dr. Dave F. Davidson 🚢 @drdavefdavidson]

Joe Blow or Adorno. It rhymes!

[David J. Frost, Ph.D. @davidjfrost]

"Frost's writing sits at a unique space—like Joe Blow could read it and get something out of it, but so could Adorno." h/t Kevilina Burbank @Missouri_Review https://t.co/qoXmVZR6wp

[Dr. Dave F. Davidson 🚢 @drdavefdavidson]

Stop trying to get motivated. Leverage automaticity, habit, and system. Use motivation only when system fails or when setting up your habits at first. https://t.co/uDOzky3vvo #productivity #procrastination #psychology #self-help

[David J. Frost, Ph.D. @davidjfrost]

Yes, sometimes we don't want to believe what we know.

[Dr. Dave F. Davidson 🚢 @drdavefdavidson]

@davidjfrost It's worth it!

[Dr. Dave F. Davidson 🚢 @drdavefdavidson]

Get this deal while you can. I've watched it get taken down and then put back up, then taken down again. Great essay which could cost you $24 to read, available for free if you engage. That's it.

[Dr. Dave F. Davidson 🚢 @drdavefdavidson]

Stop trying to get motivated. Leverage automaticity, habit, and system. Use motivation only when system fails or when setting up your habits at first. https://t.co/uDOzky3vvo #productivity #procrastination #psychology #self-help

[Dr. Dave F. Davidson 🚢 @drdavefdavidson]

What is a woman? How about what is a day?

[Dr. Dave F. Davidson 🚢 @drdavefdavidson]

“The national emergency law lays out a fast-track process for Congress to consider a resolution ending a presidential emergency, requiring committee consideration within 15 calendar days after one is introduced and a floor vote within three days after that. But the language House

[Dr. Dave F. Davidson 🚢 @drdavefdavidson]

… Republicans inserted in their measure on Tuesday declared that, “Each day for the remainder of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day” for the purposes of the emergency that Mr. Trump declared on Feb. 1” -NYTimes

Will the Roberts courtallow such redefinition?

[Dr. Dave F. Davidson 🚢 @drdavefdavidson]

@SethAbramson You can add indicted by grand juries of his peers in Georgia, Florida, and Washington DC

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

In the event Donald Trump is elected, think hard about the things he has promised to do and can do, @adamgopnik urges. What will we do to fend off the slow degradation of open debate?
https://t.co/gw7xnhDarF

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Donald Trump’s ability to be both joking and severe at the same time is what gives him his power and his immunity, @adamgopnik writes. This power extends even to something as unprecedented as the assault on the U.S. Capitol.
https://t.co/Ys2E1cbVMA

[David Burn @davidburn]

"The democratic theorists of old longed for an activated citizenry; somehow they failed to recognize how easily citizens could be activated to oppose deliberative democracy." -Adam Gopnik https://t.co/P36eTpkchx

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

In a new essay, Adam Gopnik considers the future of the United States—and why Trump’s villainy has been underestimated, even by his opponents. https://t.co/ndnEsT4C0g

[Miriam Cosic @miriamcosic]

'Even many of the ex-President’s opponents haven’t grasped the scale of the man’s villainy.'

How Alarmed Should We Be If Trump Wins Again?
- by the excellent Adam Gopnik
#USPolitics (lr)
https://t.co/QZKxKnukCh

[Allyn West @allynwest]

The lazy shape of this essay ticking through the past 8 years almost nonchalantly among the many excuses we’ve made for Trump before shouting as though the person we love most is bleeding out weeks before an election where his name remains a choice *is* the argument