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That's an important problem that most of us struggle with. All these sites like hn/twitter/reddit/youtube are not a waste of time, they provide value if you us
by tinyhouse 5y ago
That's an important problem that most of us struggle with. All these sites like hn/twitter/reddit/youtube are not a waste of time, they provide value if you use them correctly, like this blog post that I just read. I think the reason they become a waste of time is addiction - assuming you're mostly a consumer of these websites, instead of checking your twitter/reddit/etc feed once a day (or once in a few days), you check it every hour. That's a huge problem. There's no added value in checking it frequently, it's just an addiction. A nice benefit of checking it only once a day is that there's a lot of new content so you actually get value instead of seeing the same tweets again.
- starwind 5y agoI have a browser plugin set so I can only spend 15 minutes/day on hn and reddit. Literally nothing else works for me
- edot 5y agoCan't you just click "15 more minutes"? I find the iOS screen time limit to be worthless for this reason (as pointed out in the article).
- starwind 5y agoyeah it does suck, so I blocked hn and reddit and a bunch of other sites on my ipad (I guess I can override it but I can resist that urge for some reason) and only look at hn/reddit on my laptop
- msteffen 5y agoYeah, specifically, I will occasionally read things of great value on HN/Twitter, but most of the time there's nothing good on there. But intermittent rewards are more addicting than consistent rewards, so I keep checking them. If I go on Twitter/HN a few times and see nothing good, I try to convince myself that they're on a cold streak right now and stay away for a few days, at least
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