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How about doing stuff outside consuming Internet content? Then you are forced to interact with the real world, where taking action is the default. Take it from

How about doing stuff outside consuming Internet content? Then you are forced to interact with the real world, where taking action is the default. Take it from somebody very recently recovered from the digital loop: I have lost tons of time ruminating while life flowed out the window, screen, etc. By the way, is spawning new tabs while waiting for a website to load in order to keep oneself occupied really a thing?

goddessoflists 3y ago
> How about doing stuff outside consuming Internet content? Then you are forced to interact with the real world, where taking action is the default. That is the goal. Consuming stuff on the internet is just one of the things I do throughout the day and even there I've minimised it as much as possible: I've deleted almost every social media, I use LinkedIn with a timer (browser blocks in automatically). I'm subscribed to a limited number of newsletters and even then I don't immediately read them--hence all the bookmarks. > Take it from somebody very recently recovered from the digital loop: I have lost tons of time ruminating while life flowed out the window, screen, etc. This is why I recently started using my laptop and phone with a timer: I give myself a total of 4 hours to use both screens (although I don't count listening to music while doing chores as screentime--we're all big music lovers in our family). Of course, I can do this because I'm a freelancer and not the breadwinner of the house. All people I respect have told me that when I have this advantage, I should use it. Funnily, having a timer has helped me get more work done than I did when I took laptop use for granted: I'm almost done with the second issue of my magazine in less than 4 days when the first one took 2 whole weeks. > By the way, is spawning new tabs while waiting for a website to load in order to keep oneself occupied really a thing? I used to do this a lot until I recently started applying the principles of slow living and doing one thing at a time.
boredemployee 3y ago
>> I have lost tons of time ruminating while life flowed out the window, screen, etc. Agree. And also I think the same about the working hours that companies makes us to commit.
aktenlage 3y ago
> the real world, where taking action is the default. That seems overly simple, I don't think it is a solution per se. I can think of a million real world things, where taking action is not the default. > By the way, is spawning new tabs while waiting for a website to load in order to keep oneself occupied really a thing? Yes, sometimes. Particularly HN is a good intermediate, because it loads so fast.
c22 3y ago
If a website is taking so long to load that I get bored I just close it.
- brokenmachine 3y ago
  I check if it's on the internet archive...
LoganDark 3y ago
> By the way, is spawning new tabs while waiting for a website to load in order to keep oneself occupied really a thing? You have no idea. Absolutely no idea. I'll usually open 3 or 4 tabs before a single one finishes loading. You, have, no, idea. ADHD is insane.
- TheHappyOddish 3y ago
  Agreed. Something I like about Orion (and other browsers will do it with a plugin). Aside from vertical tabs showing the full title (very useful), you can close the whole tab tree once done with the subject. I've gone from 600+ tabs open on average to 80-100.
  - LoganDark 3y ago
    Surprisingly, I don't have issues with having way too many tabs open. Right now I have 6 normal tabs open, 4 always-open tabs for email, spreadsheet, calendar and Discord, and one extra Discord tab open in another profile because DID. So 11 in total. It's because I close old tabs all the time, but I constantly need to open more because otherwise I get extremely extremely bored.
_lvbh 3y ago
> By the way, is spawning new tabs while waiting for a website to load in order to keep oneself occupied really a thing? Definitely. I open up 8-20 tabs at once and go to the one that finishes loading first

goddessoflists 3y ago

> How about doing stuff outside consuming Internet content? Then you are forced to interact with the real world, where taking action is the default. That is the goal. Consuming stuff on the internet is just one of the things I do throughout the day and even there I've minimised it as much as possible: I've deleted almost every social media, I use LinkedIn with a timer (browser blocks in automatically). I'm subscribed to a limited number of newsletters and even then I don't immediately read them--hence all the bookmarks. > Take it from somebody very recently recovered from the digital loop: I have lost tons of time ruminating while life flowed out the window, screen, etc. This is why I recently started using my laptop and phone with a timer: I give myself a total of 4 hours to use both screens (although I don't count listening to music while doing chores as screentime--we're all big music lovers in our family). Of course, I can do this because I'm a freelancer and not the breadwinner of the house. All people I respect have told me that when I have this advantage, I should use it. Funnily, having a timer has helped me get more work done than I did when I took laptop use for granted: I'm almost done with the second issue of my magazine in less than 4 days when the first one took 2 whole weeks. > By the way, is spawning new tabs while waiting for a website to load in order to keep oneself occupied really a thing? I used to do this a lot until I recently started applying the principles of slow living and doing one thing at a time.

boredemployee 3y ago

>> I have lost tons of time ruminating while life flowed out the window, screen, etc. Agree. And also I think the same about the working hours that companies makes us to commit.

aktenlage 3y ago

> the real world, where taking action is the default. That seems overly simple, I don't think it is a solution per se. I can think of a million real world things, where taking action is not the default. > By the way, is spawning new tabs while waiting for a website to load in order to keep oneself occupied really a thing? Yes, sometimes. Particularly HN is a good intermediate, because it loads so fast.

c22 3y ago

If a website is taking so long to load that I get bored I just close it.

brokenmachine 3y ago
I check if it's on the internet archive...

LoganDark 3y ago

> By the way, is spawning new tabs while waiting for a website to load in order to keep oneself occupied really a thing? You have no idea. Absolutely no idea. I'll usually open 3 or 4 tabs before a single one finishes loading. You, have, no, idea. ADHD is insane.

TheHappyOddish 3y ago
Agreed. Something I like about Orion (and other browsers will do it with a plugin). Aside from vertical tabs showing the full title (very useful), you can close the whole tab tree once done with the subject. I've gone from 600+ tabs open on average to 80-100.
- LoganDark 3y ago
  Surprisingly, I don't have issues with having way too many tabs open. Right now I have 6 normal tabs open, 4 always-open tabs for email, spreadsheet, calendar and Discord, and one extra Discord tab open in another profile because DID. So 11 in total. It's because I close old tabs all the time, but I constantly need to open more because otherwise I get extremely extremely bored.

_lvbh 3y ago

> By the way, is spawning new tabs while waiting for a website to load in order to keep oneself occupied really a thing? Definitely. I open up 8-20 tabs at once and go to the one that finishes loading first