The caveat here is that either you have really good self-control and prevent yourself from sinking into time wormholes like social media (is Hacker News one?) a

The caveat here is that either you have really good self-control and prevent yourself from sinking into time wormholes like social media (is Hacker News one?) and video platforms, or you artificially create barriers that prevent you from falling into these digital distractions. I happen to use the latter method to get things done. I don't know what the real solution to this is, because since I'm the one who creates firewalls on all my devices, I also happen to know how to work around them and turn them off. With enough time spent with firewalls on, I have slowly started to forget that I can turn the firewall off. But the internal urge sometimes breaks this discipline and the end result is often hours spent on YouTube or Hacker News (like right now, typing this comment).