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This comment thread hits the nail on the head for why I deactivated my social media. But I haven't found a good alternative "productive" time waster for when m
by feocco 9y ago
This comment thread hits the nail on the head for why I deactivated my social media.
But I haven't found a good alternative "productive" time waster for when my mind needs a short break.
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- rocqua 9y agoIt's hacker news for me.
- nihonde 9y agoI like to waste time on YouTube and Wikipedia. They're good idle browsing for autodidacts.
- feocco 9y agoTIL I'm an autodidact and that I have a very similar tastes to nihonde :P
- trevyn 9y agoWhat's your process for finding good autodidactical content on YouTube? (I am building something very related to this space; I'm super curious about people's "workflows" for this.)
- rangibaby 9y agoHow to (whatever) Works for me :-)
- majewsky 9y ago"When my mind needs a short break" sounds like you should give meditation a shot.
- wutbrodo 9y agoYea, but for a lot of people who are just starting to get better at practicing mindfulness, it's not a 100% solution yet and you end up doing things like FB anyway, just more rarely. (I know that was the case for me at least)
- feocco 9y agoI actually hadn't heard the term mindfulness. I think meditation is something I'll need to give a serious try with that in mind. I can see the possible benefits. You're right on the latter part. But as of late I've gone to the extreme and deactivated all but Snapchat for social media. As well as using Cold Turkey and editing my hosts file's to keep me away from certain sites.
- rublev 9y agoI force myself to bounce between reading a book and working, the computer is mostly a tool to get work done / research things quickly now for me. It's super boring in the immediate but rewarding once you put the work in which is a stark contrast to constantly coding -> compiling and filling up that instant gratification meter.
- 5thaccount 9y ago> But I haven't found a good alternative "productive" time waster for when my mind needs a short break. Hacker News? I mean, you posted this right here!
- taneq 9y agoI spend more time on HN than on FB by a fair margin now. I probably need to start reigning it in... :P
- FridgeSeal 9y agoLuckily, HN has a handy no-proscrastination feature! :)
- magic_beans 9y agoTell me more about this!
- doubleplusgood 9y agoCopied & pasted from an old HN post: There are three new fields in your profile, noprocrast, maxvisit, and minaway. (You can edit your profile by clicking on your username.) Noprocrast is turned off by default. If you turn it on by setting it to "yes," you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours. You can override noprocrast if you want, in which case your visit clock starts over at zero.
- mathperson 9y agoA nice book!