I am sad to say that my plan failed. Although I managed to avoid town, I forgot about one potential state, the “drinking at parties at random peoples houses” state.

As a result, my productivity on Saturday was significantly below what I had estimated earlier 🙁

And for those who were wondering how casual I was dressed – trackpants and a hoody. I can’t imagine that many places outside of the four kings would let me in wearing trackpants 🙂

But seriously, well slightly more seriously, there’s almost certainly a productivity boost from going off-line and relaxing for a few hours. And there’s nothing wrong with making the science a little less dismal every so often.

Remember, the French work almost half the number of hours that Americans do, and yet their productivity isn’t far behind.

Of course, welfare maximisation in the face of time consistency requires a reference frame to be chosen. Are you sure that choosing now as you rframe of reference is ideal? Perhaps, as Kimble suggests, tomorrow morning is a more appropriate fame of reference and you should really be getting drunk now.

Or perhaps you should value your weekend free time more than your weekday and thus weight your emotions tomorrow morning, and while drunk, more heavily. I’m just not sure that your calculations — presumably done while sober — were done in the right frame of mind, or the right reference frame.

In my prior state, before the drinking, I have run the numbers and decided that the benefit from being productive tomorrow is enough 😛

“but you know I’ve been thinking.. with the drinking, you could just control yourself..hehehe”

Excuse me Rosie, weren’t you the one that convinced me of the following precommitment issues in food:

http://tvhe.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/the-individual-rationality-of-buying-small-cokeschippies/

I think it is just as relevant for boozing 😛

but you know I’ve been thinking.. with the drinking, you could just control yourself..hehehe