Tim Urban has become one of the Internet’s most popular writers. With wry stick-figure illustrations and occasionally epic prose on everything from procrastination to artificial intelligence, Urban's blog, Wait But Why, has garnered millions of unique page views, thousands of patrons and famous fans like Elon Musk (Ted.com).

Tim Urban knows that procrastination doesn't make sense, but he's never been able to shake his habit of waiting until the last minute to get things done. In this hilarious and insightful talk, Urban takes us on a journey through YouTube binges, Wikipedia rabbit holes and bouts of staring out the window -- and encourages us to think harder about what we're really procrastinating on, before we run out of time.

According to Tim Urban, his responsibilities include:

Writing posts every Tuesday every Wednesday about his psychological shortcomings
Picking a topic for the week’s post before realizing it’s icky after diving in and thinking “if only I were doing that other topic it would be so much easier”; switching to that other topic and realizing it’s incredibly icky too
Opening three Chrome windows with 42 research tabs in each, just short of getting to that stressful zone where you can’t see the icon on the tabs anymore
Pacing around in his underwear hating himself
Drawing stick figures at a 2nd 4th grade skill level
Drawing head circles ten times before finally drawing one that looks normal
Not being an expert on things he writes about
Getting yelled at by people who think he thinks he’s an expert on things he writes about
Getting scolded by people for using profanity in writing
Passionately underestimating how long each post will take to do

You can read his full dramatic nightmare story of what it was like to do a TED Talk