No, I don't think it can (completely).
If you procrastinate, you lack discipline. No technology can change or give you discipline. You have to work on it and you can't let yourself say no, it's a mindset.
If you procrastinate, you lack discipline. No technology can change or give you discipline. You have to work on it and you can't let yourself say no, it's a mindset.
I don't believe "discipline" is a useful concept for everyone. We all have different brains and different circumstances. Some are motivated by discipline and duty, others by novelty and randomness. To an extent most of us can exert our will to build more of one side or the other, but it's much more efficient to exploit our supposed weaknesses at the same time as we build our strengths.
I feel like I've seen examples of the "discipline" crowd and let's call it the "gamification" crowd preaching their one true way, so it's clear that both seem to work for some people, and maybe we can all try to apply some of each to solving problems of motivation and procrastination. But speaking for myself, discipline is rarely the tool that works for me, and it's just that after some amount of waiting I suddenly feel ready to take on whatever it was I was delaying. I think that some kind of randomness might actually help if I can summon the discipline to do just one thing if I don't yet know what it is (I haven't read the article yet so I don't know if what they describe is similar to what I've been noodling on the back burner of ideas).
If you don't believe that the shape of technology can change people's behavior....
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/24/user-interface-des...
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As someone whose entire profession is meticulously-crafting metaphors to enable organizations to better interpret and act on information, I think discipline itself is a thing you craft. Discipline is a mental techne. You can design what ideas and habits you want to try to plant in your brain.
Your mind is a garden of your own
to terrace and irrigate,
to plant and to graft,
to water and weed and repair,
-- and yes, to artificially fertilize if needed --
so that whatever the weather,
out of your impulses
will grow the actions which bear fruit
according to what you truly value.
A better way is to only do what you actually, really want to be doing, but
- most of us don't always have that luxury
- often we would like to have something done while not really wanting to do
- fear of failure, fear of success etc can make us procrastinate even on things we actually want to do.