I think I do something similar, though on reflection I read things almost as a distraction. Like, I should be working on something useful, and instead I'm readi

I think I do something similar, though on reflection I read things almost as a distraction. Like, I should be working on something useful, and instead I'm reading about the internals of a change to a language I don't even use. It's _interesting_, but usually not _useful_. It's just information porn - to me anyway, it's probably very useful to some other people. I partially alleviated this by requiring myself to summarize the useful bits from any article I read into a note. The point being that if there's not enough value in the article to make that worthwhile, then there's no point even reading it and I'm just wasting time. And if there is value in it, then forcing myself to summarize that is going to make it more likely that I'll remember it. I'm not 100% consistent on doing this, but it does help break me out of "information grazing".