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> I think technology shouldn't make you constantly exercise self control or anything else. Always having access to all kinds of online content makes you cons

• dmitryminkovsky 8y ago
  > Always having access to all kinds of online content makes you constantly exercise your self control by itself. Oh I think I understand now: yes, exactly, and that can be pretty tough. I don't understand why everything needs to demand your self control. Specifically, why do these technologies that purportedly help us actually force us to discipline ourselves? I think that should be our first clue that these technologies aren't actually doing what technology is for, which is helping us, making us better, increasing our various capabilities. Instead many of these technologies quite literally have the opposite effect. But I love technology and believe in technology in principle, so I created an email platform that, unlike basically everything else, does not make you exercise self control and actually works to improve you.
• afarrell 8y ago
  No it doesn't. It lets you do so, but it also lets you build up the habit of getting distracted and spending 4 hours. If you haven't done that in the past 2 years, consider the fact that you either: - Never had the problem this is trying to solve, in which case you should consider responding to this like a lactose-intolerant responds to a lasagna restaurant: its not for you. - Found a solution to this problem that you've learned to exercise so effortlessly that you forgot it was a hard problem, in which case you should please share it.