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I've been struggling a lot with this lately. The thing is, there are a lot of digital things I _do_ want to accomplish / master / etc, but the feeds are the ea

I've been struggling a lot with this lately. The thing is, there are a lot of digital things I _do_ want to accomplish / master / etc, but the feeds are the easier reach, and I go with what's at hand when I am low on energy (or worse, when I'm unhappy with my life). I have an idea that putting some effort into making the things I _want_ to accomplish (e.g. another MOOC course) more readily accessible might make it easier to form a habit around consuming what I _want_, rather than mental candy.

rtpg 9y ago
tips for doing so: https://heyfocus.com/ https://heyfocus.com/ <-- Focus, lets you block sites. Start out just blocking everything from 9AM to 9PM stay logged out of websites. Every time you want to use a site you should have to log in https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/history-autodelete/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/history-autod... <-- this website will let you block things from your history. This prevents the "type n -> press down -> press enter to get to hacker news". I'm typing this here so it's not 100% effective but I've found that after going sessions cold turkey I start to stop caring about the churn of news (especially for twitter). Prune people you follow on social media. Especially high volume posts/low effort stuff. Not worth it. I've found that using RSS feeds help a bit because you can only look at something once. No "purple link syndrome". Good luck, I'm still struggling but I feel much more in control of my life compared to even 3 months ago after getting burned out like we all are. Especially from political twitter (just read the news on a normal website, it's fine to be 6 hours behind).
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- michaelbazos 9y ago
  "type n -> press down -> press enter to get to hacker news". It's even shorter as you can skip the "press down" step. At least in Chrome and Firefox.

rtpg 9y ago

tips for doing so: https://heyfocus.com/ https://heyfocus.com/ <-- Focus, lets you block sites. Start out just blocking everything from 9AM to 9PM stay logged out of websites. Every time you want to use a site you should have to log in https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/history-autodelete/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/history-autod... <-- this website will let you block things from your history. This prevents the "type n -> press down -> press enter to get to hacker news". I'm typing this here so it's not 100% effective but I've found that after going sessions cold turkey I start to stop caring about the churn of news (especially for twitter). Prune people you follow on social media. Especially high volume posts/low effort stuff. Not worth it. I've found that using RSS feeds help a bit because you can only look at something once. No "purple link syndrome". Good luck, I'm still struggling but I feel much more in control of my life compared to even 3 months ago after getting burned out like we all are. Especially from political twitter (just read the news on a normal website, it's fine to be 6 hours behind).

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michaelbazos 9y ago
"type n -> press down -> press enter to get to hacker news". It's even shorter as you can skip the "press down" step. At least in Chrome and Firefox.