Lately I've come to the realization that I browse certain sites (hn, reddit, yt, etc.) when I'm bored. There is this fascination of finding something cool, edu

Lately I've come to the realization that I browse certain sites (hn, reddit, yt, etc.) when I'm bored. There is this fascination of finding something cool, educational or entertaining where part of my brain thinks 'just one more click' will satisfy and somehow I've tricked myself into thinking I'm learning or bettering myself when I'm not in any way. When not much is going on and I scan sites in the evening it is sad how many articles/posts/whatever I've already looked at during the day. I don't have a magical answer to your question but one thing I started doing when focusing on programming is a music playlist for programming - chill, electronic, music. I lose track of time. I think the other thing I need to do with hobbies is actually do the hobby instead of reading/watching videos about the hobby. Need to let my activity dictate what I want to enrich that hobby with later. My example is woodworking - I sub to quite a few channels and there is always something new posted. The ones that walk thru a project are neat but if I'm not doing the project then its the same as watching any random TV show at that point.