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Noprocrast (2010)

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a side note, but a dimple but effective strategy I use for getting of time consuming websites is to just use a password manager for all my accounts on those sites. logging out of those accounts, and having the password only be accessible via another long and complicated password (to access the password vault) is usually enough of a barrier in the moment

My solution is to change the password of time-suck sites by closing my eyes, typing in the password and cut-paste to confirm.

I find I do not miss them.

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I don’t know if the OP is even on Facebook, but I it noteworthy that it’s not on their list of sample blocked sites. I don’t find FB to be addictive either, unlike a lot of people. Usually when I check it, I find myself a quick skim of notifications and the newsfeed to be sufficient, really just a minute or two a day. It runs counter to the popular narrative of Facebook addiction. Anyone else feel that way? I wonder…

yes, but it all changes the moment one posts something, no matter how inane. Then narcissism makes it almost impossible to stop checking it.

I don't find any reason to repetitively check a post on Facebook (or Instagram / any of the other image/video sharing platforms.) If I put something up, I can go back and find out what my "final earnings" in social-capital were days/weeks later. There's no urgency to that. It's not like the stock market; it's not going to suddenly start dropping. It just rises until it plateaus.

I find places where I leave comments (like Reddit, or HN, but Twitter also works this way) a lot worse for this "addiction via narcissism" aspect. On these services, your post/comment doesn't only get more and more popular; it may also be rebutted by a reply (not necessarily made in good faith), at which point it might start getting less popular, possibly dipping into the negatives if the reply's reinterpretation paints you in a bad-enough light. Because of this, there's a feeling of having to watch for these replies, and leap to defend your post against them, so that the reply's interpretation of your words doesn't "win out" against your own actual meaning (which may not always have been perfectly clear from your original, succinct wording.)

That's "narcissism" too, in a much stronger sense of what Narcissistic Personality Disorder means: the obsessive paranoia over losing social capital, due to being perceived as having committed a social faux-pas, that leads one to avoid taking social risks, and perhaps even lying to make oneself seem more "middle-of-the-road" within one's social cluster than one actually is in private.

Re: Noprocrast (2010)

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I don’t know if the OP is even on Facebook, but I it noteworthy that it’s not on their list of sample blocked sites. I don’t find FB to be addictive either, unlike a lot of people. Usually when I check it, I find myself a quick skim of notifications and the newsfeed to be sufficient, really just a minute or two a day. It runs counter to the popular narrative of Facebook addiction. Anyone else feel that way? I wonder…

Disabling internet is fine How do you disable games?

Re: Noprocrast (2010)

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I don’t know if the OP is even on Facebook, but I it noteworthy that it’s not on their list of sample blocked sites. I don’t find FB to be addictive either, unlike a lot of people. Usually when I check it, I find myself a quick skim of notifications and the newsfeed to be sufficient, really just a minute or two a day. It runs counter to the popular narrative of Facebook addiction. Anyone else feel that way? I wonder…

yes, but it all changes the moment one posts something, no matter how inane. Then narcissism makes it almost impossible to stop checking it.

Yes, I've long known that imaginary internet points are the only things that fill the void in my soul. I'm quite embarrassed to say that I go and re-read all my HN comments if I'm feeling low.

Re: Noprocrast (2010)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

yes, but it all changes the moment one posts something, no matter how inane. Then narcissism makes it almost impossible to stop checking it.

I don't find any reason to repetitively check a post on Facebook (or Instagram / any of the other image/video sharing platforms.) If I put something up, I can go back and find out what my "final earnings" in social-capital were days/weeks later. There's no urgency to that. It's not like the stock market; it's not going to suddenly start dropping. It just rises until it plateaus. I find places where I leave comments (…

Oh, yes, sure, I was not really distinguishing posts from comments. Either works by attracting the attention of others in a public setting. In that context the effects of both praise and reproach are amplified enormously and otherwise sane people can't help but continuously engage, as you say.

Re: Noprocrast (2010)

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I messed around with the settings in HN the other day and managed to enable the procrastination settings. Was locked out for a couple hours....

That’s what I get for just toggling things. It’s been a habit since I was a child, if we visited a house or rented a car I would flip any switch or touch any button or knob I could reach.

Re: Noprocrast (2010)

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I used to have script that would gradually dim my display unless I typed.

The broader issue for me isn’t a particular website. It’s brain-dead consumption of feeds. Typing guarantees that you’re thinking a little.

Even with email, it made me less likely to overthink things. It gave a bias to action. Keep moving, keep typing.

I had a whitelist of exceptions (IntelliJ, Terminal, etc).

Unfortunately the script broke a few years ago. I keep on meaning to fix it but I’ve been too busy reading feeds.

Re: Noprocrast (2010)

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I used to have script that would gradually dim my display unless I typed. The broader issue for me isn’t a particular website. It’s brain-dead consumption of feeds. Typing guarantees that you’re thinking a little. Even with email, it made me less likely to overthink things. It gave a bias to action. Keep moving, keep typing. I had a whitelist of exceptions (IntelliJ, Terminal, etc). Unfortunately the script broke a f…

Operating system on which it ran?
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