It's wonderful how people make money from distractions which in turn enable others to exploit the increasingly unaware. But truly it is scary. I lose days jus

It's wonderful how people make money from distractions which in turn enable others to exploit the increasingly unaware. But truly it is scary. I lose days just reading HN, Paul Graham, Rodgers and that's after closing 20 tabs of webcomics, hardware and software news etc. I think the only way out is as PG said it, actively fighting it - shutdown your computer, close them tabs, work on a good old console only linux, destroy skynet ? My take is that in the end, we're all animals, but our self-awareness enables us to manipulate ourselves into doing what we want ( a bit like some article about pavlovian start your computer, fire up git and all that - don't remember who or when) - i.e. by consciously addicting ourselves to what we want to be doing. I should get into that a bit more though -- seeing how I still read HN etc.