My guess is that you're not busy enough or that you're not busy enough with rewarding work. Believe it or not, being happy and engaged is a lot of work. Write d

My guess is that you're not busy enough or that you're not busy enough with rewarding work. Believe it or not, being happy and engaged is a lot of work. Write down a list of things you want to learn, try and/or do and just start doing them. Take a sailing class, get your motorcycle license, learn a new technology, build a workbench, start running. You don't have to have a hobby but the more things you try the more likely you are to find something you enjoy more than watching the world burn online. Building lego sets takes a ridiculous amount of time but the tactile response I get from putting blocks together is pretty fulfilling, more than sitting at a computer. I am also a developer and I've found one thing that I've enjoyed recently is revisiting old projects where the client and I disagreed on the execution and building it out the way I wanted to. It's fun to test your assumptions and also gives you more perspective when you build things in the future. If you use AWS, sign up to acloud.guru for a couple of months and get an AWS certification. Bottom line is that change isn't easy. Just make a list, get dressed, leave the house and go do something. Eventually you'll see wasting time online as exactly that, wasting time.