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I've found personally I don't need to block the whole internet - just the top few procrastination websites - facebook, reddit, slashdot, bbc news etc. that I'd
by andyn 18y ago
I've found personally I don't need to block the whole internet - just the top few procrastination websites - facebook, reddit, slashdot, bbc news etc. that I'd otherwise be tempted to read.
There's a Firefox extension called LeechBlock ( http://www.proginosko.com/leechblock.html http://www.proginosko.com/leechblock.html ) that will do that for you, and allow fine control over how long or when the sites are blocked as well as the option to stop you simply disabling it during these time periods.
But you can still use the web for research.
(Hope it didn't sound too much like an advert, but it's helped me).
- mechanical_fish 18y agoExcellent advice. I solved 80% part of the problem two days ago by simply blocking news.yc at the hosts file level on my main machine. My laptop is now my news.yc machine. It is hilarious to have PG publish the same solution two days later. :) I tried the noprocrast setting on this site. Reading between the lines of his essay, I surmise that PG, like me, has evolved around noprocrast. My lizard brain has figured out how to click the override button before my conscious mind can notice. Most of the rest of the stuff I read is a few dozen blogs. They update through RSS, and there are few enough of them (and I skim quickly enough) that they aren't a big time sink. It's news.yc -- which tends to embroil me in writing -- that's the sink. Of course, there are worse ways to waste time than news.yc. Sometimes you need to tell yourself that.
- lupin_sansei 18y agoI have got a lot of benefit from Leechblock too. I use it to reward myself my allowing 10 minutes of fun every hour.