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The internet itself is neutral, only gives high leverage to your actions. Feeling like procrastinating? It'll get multiplied 100-fold. Searching for something u
by dexen 16y ago
The internet itself is neutral, only gives high leverage to your actions. Feeling like procrastinating? It'll get multiplied 100-fold. Searching for something useful? It'll get multiplied as well.
- Swizec 16y agoThe problem lies more in this sequence of events 1. Searching for something useful 2. Page takes a while to load 3. Better use this opportunity to check HackerNews (or whatever) 4. Waste 10 minutes 5. Oh yeah, that site already loaded.
- danohuiginn 16y agogood point on the page-load thing. I wonder if some small technical tweaks could substantially change our behaviour here. Something like automatically flipping back to whatever page you were waiting for, as soon as it's finished loading.
- dexen 16y agoTo a degree, that can be fixed behaviorally. I tend to open outgoing links in background and continue reading the current document. Once I'm done with current document, I'll close tab and a fresh tab with (hopefully) already loaded content will slide in. For example, a quick glance over HN's main page, followed by opening interesting stuff in background, followed by closing the main page. Doesn't work too well with footnotes, thou.