Ask HN: How do you deal with information and internet addiction? | Hacker News
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Ask HN: How do you deal with information and internet addiction? | Hacker News
Addictive websites of the type mentioned previously thrive in a vacuum: If you haven’t given yourself something to do in a given moment, they’ll always beckon as an appealing option. If you instead fill this free time with something of more quality, their grip on your attention will loosen.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
use to assuage your urge toward distraction, and in the case of the most addictive forms of technology, that’s surely a sensible idea. But they don’t address the urge itself. Even if you quit Facebook, or ban yourself from social media during the workday, or exile yourself to a cabin in the mountains, you’ll probably still find it unpleasantly cons
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
This also makes it easier to see why the strategies generally recommended for defeating distraction—digital detoxes, personal rules about when you’ll allow yourself to check your inbox, and so forth—rarely work, or at least not for long. They involve limiting your access to the things you use to assuage your urge toward distraction, and in the case... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Alex Wittenberg added
This also makes it easier to see why the strategies generally recommended for defeating distraction—digital detoxes, personal rules about when you’ll allow yourself to check your inbox, and so forth—rarely work, or at least not for long. They involve limiting your access to the things you use to assuage your urge toward distraction, and in the case... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Alex Wittenberg added
Another huge time-suck is online entertainment, especially when it masquerades as work-related or educational. I was spending easily two hours a day on sites like hacker news and twitter. This is apparently below average.
The opportunity cost is huge - 2 hours per work day is 500 hours per year. Maybe I learned something from that aimless
... See moreJamie Brandon • Emotional management
sari added
Being online more than that just feels like a threat to my creativity. A therapist I interviewed recently told me that digital overconsumption interrupts one’s capacity to dream and create; not to mention, studies of phone addiction suggest that spending too much time hunting for new online trends dulls our ability to appreciate novelty in the real... See more
Alara added