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Ask HN: How do you deal with information and internet addiction?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with information and internet addiction?

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58x14 wrote: post #83
dbieber wrote: post #71

I made a list of my strategies for this: https://davidbieber.com/snippets/2022-03-18-attention-strate... So you don't have to click through, here they are: * Using an outliner like Roam Research * Working with another person (e.g. pair programming) * Working with another person present (e.g. independent coworking) * Running a “distraction detection” program * Mentally noting the distraction-kind and returning my atte…

Thanks for turning me on to Go Note Go. I’ve been contemplating a similar system for quite some time. How often do you review your “Go” notes? I’m finding that’s now becoming the bottleneck in my mental model - I’ve reduced most of the friction in my output, but now there’s more activation energy for retrieval. I’ve been using Obsidian for a week now, which I hope will pay dividends in time. Do you have a particular…

> To use Go Note Go in the shower, acquire a waterproof Bluetooth enabled keyboard, and pair it with your Go Note Go Raspberry Pi 400. Go ahead and leave that waterproof keyboard in your shower.

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zzzbra wrote: post #208
dinkleberg wrote: post #114

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I’m curious, how do you use quotes in your anki deck? Do you do a card like “What did TS Elliot say about knowledge?” And have the answer be the quote?

The approach I take with quotes is more subjective than it is with almost all of my other cards, since it would pointless to really judge whether or not I know some piece of maybe abstruse wisdom, I just rate it on a subjective grading of, how well am I living my life relative to this statement, and if it feels like it's something I'm really lacking I'll fail it or mark it hard. The card has no back, something that I…

That seems like a reasonable approach, I’ll have to give that a try.

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Post by goldfeld »

lobocinza wrote: post #209
goldfeld wrote: post #206

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Yes, fzf is amazing, back when I used and customized my linux box a lot finding out about it was a breakthrough in experience and speed of usage. My dotfiles suffered so much bitrot after over five years of not using them (it's on GH goldfeld/dotfiles the mess of both nvim and emacs init files) that I still think of cleaning them up and using one of those editors again, someday.. I guess. Ironically today my only int…

I see that you're a capixaba fellow. I added it to my RSS reader.

Thanks! now I’m curious! you can also reach me on tw @vicgoldfeld

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Post by lobocinza »

goldfeld wrote: post #213
lobocinza wrote: post #209

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I see that you're a capixaba fellow. I added it to my RSS reader.

Thanks! now I’m curious! you can also reach me on tw @vicgoldfeld

I'm not on TW anymore but I'm danisztls on GH. And I'm dani at foostodon.

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Post by johnnyanmac »

gessha wrote: post #120

I found HealthyGamerGG’s recent video really useful for this: https://youtu.be/8PYhEWK2wVA Some scattered notes from this video: - when you're bored, your mind is looking for a particular stimulation - when you allow yourself to resolve boredom with dopaminergic activities like video games, you reinforce for yourself the idea that this is how to relieve yourself of boredom. Your brain in turn will learn to immediatel…

> instead of falling for a craving or a desire, jot it down and meditate on it, think it through. Ask yourself: "What else can I do?"

I will quite literally "ride out boredom" by lying down in bed and ponder into nothingness at times as a means to procrastinate. Maybe even fall into choice paralysis and end up doing nothing as I spend all my time arguing over what is most productive. I thought video games and internet were the problems, but I think it's just coping mechanisms for loneliness and depression.

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Post by ivansavz »

mike_mg wrote: post #80

> Does anybody else feel that way? oh yeah, sure! 2 actionable things that changed my view on this things completely: 1) Huberman lab podcast on dopamine: https://hubermanlab.com/how-to-increase-motivation-and-drive... . It's not some self help BS, all based on science, backed by publications. TL; DR, you might be riding too high on dopamine / layering too many dopaminergic activities. You might need to lower your ba…

Wow, the youtube uBlock rules hack is brilliant!

I think I will gain 3+ hours of my life back per day. Thank you so much for sharing!

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