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Ask HN: What sites do you visit daily?
I love reading the the stories that make it to the top of Hacker News and (for better or worse) it's part of my daily routine. I also bounce around a few news sites too (Tech Crunch, The Verge, BBC News).
On the flip side, I find that my productivity gets zapped by checking on all these sites and whenever I have a few spare minutes - I often find myself 'checking' these sites in case there is anything I have missed.
I do use a rss reader, but I always find myself drawn back to the browser!
Just wondering what works for others in managing their media diet.
So my question is two parts:
What sites do you visit daily?
What do you do to ensure it doesn't impact your productivity?
Cheers :)
- epirogov 4y agoscmp
- McButz 4y agoI'm trying to follow prolific twitter accounts. - reddit's /r/MachineLearning: @slashML - Yan LeCun @ylecun
- theGeatZhopa 4y agoI visit news sources daily. It does not impact my productivity, as I do the readings in my "spare" time or before going to bed. What did impact my productivity was these moments when you receive a new email, a call, or notifications (WhatsApp, followed Websites.. etc..) and smoking a cigarette Each short break has a effect of breaking your concentration and you need to re-think and work yourself in again. In a creativity process, this is good. But not in a thinking/coding/designing process. So my solution to this was to unsubscribe all notifications and RSS feeds = Minimizing distractions while work time. But, as smoking is a human right this is still a distraction I won't minimize :) If you don't need the (information) RSS feeds for your work, I would start here. Having that, you need to monitor your movings. Take notes on time needed for ex-work and work doings.. you'll see quite fast what does distract/brake your productivity. For me, I approx. know how much time is needed for something. Taking notes shows f.e. much more needed time. So, by that, it's possible to find out which doings distract you so much.
- jacquesm 4y agoGoogle, youtube, nu.nl, HN, Twitter, bank, in house tooling, pianojacq.com (no, really).
- bidikburger 4y agotech news: hackernews, verge and tech crunch politics: eksisozluk and aposto(turkish), bbc and financial times(global) social media: twitter, linkedin, mastodon entertainment: youtube, spotify and bflix
- themew 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/