<story><title>The Zeigarnik Effect</title><url>http://blog.sandglaz.com/zeigarnik-effect-scientific-key-to-better-work/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>natural219</author><text>Another interesting way to interpret this is that perhaps the Zeigarnik effect is a good description of the &amp;quot;psychological&amp;quot; cost of unpaid technical debt. For instance, during any project at my job I run into at least 5 things -- bugs, code improvements, components I could build to make this task easier -- and I jot them down. When I finish, I move on to the next feature, and that list grows to 10, then 15, then 30... the anxiety that &amp;quot;man I really need to fix this shitty codebase&amp;quot; actually affects me psychologically in tangible ways, and IMO is one of the under-talked about aspects of ignoring technical and design debt.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Zeigarnik Effect</title><url>http://blog.sandglaz.com/zeigarnik-effect-scientific-key-to-better-work/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jhund</author><text>What the article doesn&amp;#x27;t mention is to use this effect as a tactic to get going in the morning: Plan your day so that you stop in the middle of an interesting task at the end of the day. I find it&amp;#x27;s effortless for me to pick it up the next morning.</text></comment>