I have spent quite a bit of time on this over the past few years, mainly because I know it's a problem for me and for many others. Like any hacker, my plan is

I have spent quite a bit of time on this over the past few years, mainly because I know it's a problem for me and for many others. Like any hacker, my plan is to build something. I've started off with a personal news aggregation site that visits the places I normally go and creates a "Newspaper" of plain-text articles I can read without all the engagement/addiction/distraction stuff. I find if nothing else, this allows me to consume a lot more! So I'm not sure I'm solving it. But once I get that nailed, I'm going to do statistical text analysis to reduce interesting articles to summaries. I find many times that because I begin reading an article, I feel as if I should continue to the end. If I had only a paragraph, with no easy way of continuing? (With perhaps a "Save for later" button that would make the article available in four hours or something) I'd probably drift a lot less. This is a very tough problem. Many times I find myself reading some about some obscure topic that does not make either an immediate or long-term positive difference in my life. I fear for too many of us the internet is consuming us instead of the other way around. Good luck!