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On the problem of wasting time browsing - I stick to a rough Pomodoro style principle. Coffee in the morning while I spend 20 minutes gorging on the sweet sweet
by welanes 11y ago
On the problem of wasting time browsing - I stick to a rough Pomodoro style principle. Coffee in the morning while I spend 20 minutes gorging on the sweet sweet stream of fresh info from HN/Reddit/Feedly/Twitter that surfaced while I slept.
Anything that looks interesting but requires more than a few minutes to chew on (like this, today: FBI Paid More Than $1M to Hack San Bernardino iPhone) I bookmark.
Throughout the day I take 10mins break for each 50mins of work, I don't go to these sites again, I just work through what I picked out in that first 20 minutes.
Gets the thirst for news out of the way and allows you to procrastinate, in a sense, "productively".
- rollinDyno 11y agoThat 'sweet sweet stream' actually contains not what surfaced while you slept but during the whole day except your allotted 20 minutes. How do you consume 4 streams (HN, Reddit, Feedly and Twitter) each containing roughly 24 hours of activity, in 20 minutes?
- giancarlostoro 11y agoI'm pretty sure he means he looks at all the headlines, and then picks whatever is the most relevant / interesting to read throughout the day.
- gedrap 11y agoHN Algolia is neat for this kind of workflow https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=last24h&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page... just check it once a day, pick up what to read for the rest of the day.
- welanes 11y agoNot too hard. As giancarlostoro said, I simply skim in the mornings - open my favorite sites, find posts I think are worth reading and middle click a lot. Go through the resulting new tabs and bookmark what seems interesting for later. The goal isn't to read every single new thing on the Internet, but between my pre-filtered sites and the morning skim I get a nice slice of interesting content to read throughout the day.
- basch 11y agoIve been finding this more satisfying and easier to do lately. http://redef.com/channel/media/feed http://redef.com/channel/media/feed Keep it open, read an article when I have a free moment. Next free moment scroll to next interesting article. Dont get sucked too far elsewhere into the internet. Not always easy to do. Look where I am now.