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It might sound silly, foregoing most apps and using private/incognito browsing on all my devices 100% of the time is a productivity booster for me. The frictio
by ProfessorLayton 9y ago
It might sound silly, foregoing most apps and using private/incognito browsing on all my devices 100% of the time is a productivity booster for me.
The friction of having to log into every site all the time means I'll only go if I feel I need to, thereby keeping my device usage "productive".
A huge bonus is not being bombarded with push notifications and a lot less tracking.
- danso 9y agoNot silly at all. I think we as humans vastly underestimate the degree that we're influenced by small subconscious things, even though there's entire professional fields and countless dollars devoted to the practice (e.g. design, copy-writing, ui-ux). It feels better to see things as rational decisions, sometimes between good versus evil, rather than to admit our mundane weaknesses. I do something similar to you, except that I log off at the desktop (except for HN, sadly). If I want to send out a pointless but time-consuming rant about something ultimately trivial, I'm going to have to do it on my phone's touchscreen. And the thought of doing so is often more than enough to kill the desire so I can just focus on real work and writing. When I find myself lying in bed longer than I should because I'm touchscreen-typing these comments/posts, then I go cold turkey on my phone :).