Similar observation here. I can't change jack-shit about my habits if I don't engineer my environment to make it happen. I suspect that's basically the norm for

Similar observation here. I can't change jack-shit about my habits if I don't engineer my environment to make it happen. I suspect that's basically the norm for most people, and the author's observation that kids transparently work this way is spot-on—but so do most adults. The biggest impediment these days is ubiquitous, always-on Internet. In some ways I miss when it was a place you had to go (a physical desktop sitting somewhere) and something you had to decide to turn on (with some delay, so you wouldn't do it on a whim), as in the dial-up days.