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This article is very misleading. They neglected to mention that in Norway your taxes are public information. The tax list is published in the newspapers and online. Anyone can see what everybody else earned and paid in taxes.
That does not change the fact that Altinn (the website) is a portal for over 700 forms, ranging from changing your home address, signing student loan contracts and applying for social services.
Taxes aren't everything and I really do not care if people see how much money I make, but when something like this happens this easily (this is not the first case of problems with Altinn, although not so severe before) you begin to worry, is accepting the lowest bidding contractor really is the best option for a website that holds the information for nearly every citizen of Norway the best idea?
But on the other hand if the website was run by the private sector the company would have faced bankruptcy a long time ago and we would all be filing our taxes on paper :-/
I do not know what is worse, I would prefer they at least separated different systems so that we did not have a SSO solution for everything. I would much rather have one for taxes, one for forms and documents and one for whatever else, separated by the level of severity if they were to be broken into, or in the case something like this were to happen.
This posting is very misleading. It neglects to mention that in Norway, your tax return is not public. Only your income, your net worth and what you paid in taxes.
That's not quite true either. The public figures are tax paid and net worth; the income numbers that you see are reverse-engineered from tax paid and the code, and may be inaccurate.
The totals are public, but not your entire tax report. And since this guy could represent his company, all the tax details of his company was also available.
I think the biggest issue is that this bug raises serious questions about the whole implementation of the site.
I agree. Procrastination is caused by a lack of vision.
Here are some painless quick-wins:
1. Make a list of things you would like to accomplish the following day BEFORE you go to bed. Prioritize it. Then close your eyes and visualize the next day. Start from the moment you wake up. Wakeup -> Bathroom -> Coffee -> Get Dressed -> Check email -> Commits to GitHub -> etc... Visualize everything. Watch the following day like a movie in your head. Do it every night.
When you wake up you'll know exactly what to do. You'll feel focused and ready to make things happen for yourself.
2. Set goals. Make plans. What would you like to achieve in day? One week? One month? How about in the next 10 minutes? I'm sure there is something you have been putting off that you could accomplish in 10 min. Just work hard for the next 10 minutes.
Start now. Right now. Ok, Go. 10 minutes. That's it.
That might work for mild cases of procrastination, but not severe ones.
I know all the things I should be doing, like setting goals, making lists, visualizing myself working on and achieving various tasks and goals, checking on my progress, etc..
The problem is that I don't do those things.
Well, sometimes I do manage to make some lists, but I don't work on any of the items on those lists. I don't even check to see what's due next on those lists. I've tried taping my lists to my bedroom door and to my bathroom mirror, but I just walk past or look past those lists like they weren't there.
It's easy for to say things like "just work hard" or "just do it" and give advice on things a procrastinator should do. But what's to be done when someone can't "just do it" or follow your advice? That's the real problem.
I would be the most productive person in the world if I could just follow through on things I know I should be doing. But I just don't.
