Brilliant! As far as I know, this idea was first proposed by Randall Munroe in the hovertext of https://xkcd.com/862/ https://xkcd.com/862/ (2011-02-18): "Afte

Brilliant! As far as I know, this idea was first proposed by Randall Munroe in the hovertext of https://xkcd.com/862/ https://xkcd.com/862/ (2011-02-18): "After years of trying various methods, I broke this habit by pitting my impatience against my laziness. I decoupled the action and the neurological reward by setting up a simple 30-second delay I had to wait through, in which I couldn't do anything else, before any new page or chat client would load (and only allowed one to run at once). The urge to check all those sites magically vanished -- and my 'productive' computer use was unaffected."