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Re: Noprocrast (2010)

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Post by henearkr »

jawzz wrote: post #75
henearkr wrote: post #31

Anything requiring sudo or su is not enough: too easy to just take the habit to type the password very fast. What I've found that works is using the command "lockout" with some weird modification of the sudoers file in order to allow only certain commands with sudo (or other commands with only certain arguments not matching forbidden patterns).

Another approach is to block the websites in your router settings and to make that password very long, assuming you don't need to access it as often as sudo.

Nice idea, thanks. I have to check that my router can do that.

Re: Noprocrast (2010)

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Post by wott »

Darmody wrote: post #82

I added Reddit and some other sites to my uBlock blacklist because most of the time I would end up there unwillingly. Control + t (new tab), red (autocomplete to reddit) and enter. Muscular memory. Now uBlock tells me that the site is locked, I realize what I'm doing and I close the tab. That muscle memory is now gone. Sometimes duckduckgo returns me some useful reddit links and uBlock gives me the option to allow it…

That method didn't work for me (if I am thinking of the same thing you are describing, not sure). I would soon routinely unblock Reddit, so the block would become useless in achieving its purpose and become just an annoying extra layer.

So what I did then was blocking specific subs (well, one actually, my national sub) in which I felt compelled to correct people all the time. On each browser on each computer I use, I installed an extension like "Silent Block" which allows to blacklist the URL you want with a regex (".* reddit.com/r/yourmostlovedandhatedsub.* "). Unlike /etc/hosts and similar methods, you don't have to block a whole domain, the control is finer.

So I can still freely view technical or whatever subs with which I don't feel engaged, and follow links to Reddit from search engine or other sites.

It's been over 1 year that I set up this system, and I never bypassed it. It's working fine for me.

Or perhaps Ublock blacklist allows this kind of 'fine grain' blocking too?

Re: Noprocrast (2010)

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Post by caleb-allen »

jgilias wrote: post #90

Fwiw, I've found that the inversion approach of fighting procrastination works considerably better for me. So, instead of trying to not do something I try to do something instead. In more detail this means focusing on achieving a certain amount of deep work hours per day. First this means that I have to condition myself to want to do deep work in the first place. Rereading the first few pages of the book from time to…

I’m with you on this. Doing something is much easier than resisting something.

That said, I also do something like OP to block out some sites, but that really only is important as I “get the ball rolling”. I noticed myself habitually tabbing to twitter or something whenever I got to a “hard part”

Re: Noprocrast (2010)

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Post by nojs »

The problem with this approach is HN, reddit are necessary for work. I search HN all the time for technical info to avoid the blogspam and SEO marketing crap on Google. For me, the key to managing procrastination has been accountability - tracking my time and making myself radically accountable to friends I respect.

Re: Noprocrast (2010)

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Post by roywashere »

dmix wrote: post #87
baxtr wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could still change to LTE on your phone. Just sayin...

I find some phone use to be fine, the worst productivity breaker is tabbing to Reddit/HN/etc when you were focusing. Switching to your phone is already enough to a break from focusing where it's not a big deal. Plus you could just leave it in another room. It's like what doctors recommend for bad sleep habits is to keep the bedroom/bed for sleeping only - don't spend hours using screens or eating in bed, then your bo…

+1! Six months ago I added reddit, hacker news, Twitter and two of my favorite news sites to /etc/hosts mapping to localhost. I use those sites exclusively on mobile. I still accidentally open a tab out of habit from time to time, but go back to productive matters quickly.

Re: Noprocrast (2010)

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Post by eddyg »

unicornporn wrote: post #88
TeMPOraL wrote: post #35

I've been trying various "noprocrast" approaches over the years, including /etc/hosts and HN's own noprocrast settings. The one that finally worked for me was disabling distractions directly on the router - it covers all my computers, as well as my phone. I set it so that distracting sites are disabled during work hours (Monday-Friday, 08:00 - 18:00). More details about implementation: http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/20…

Doesn't that break with DNS over HTTPS (default on Firefox these days)?

Not if you run pi-hole (which to be clear, runs in Docker just fine...) which includes the canary domain to disable this when it’s on by default:

https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/pull/2915

Re: Noprocrast (2010)

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Post by Funes- »

Only a strong sense of purpose and an equally strong will to sacrifice everything we use to evade oursleves from our own lives will keep procrastination at bay. Nothing else creates deeply rooted meaning. Nothing else really works.

Putting hurdles between us and our distractions will, at worst, start a vicious cycle of circumventing them and putting them up again; at best, make us dependent on them so we resort back to our bad habits whenever we can't make use of those mechanisms--back to square one.

Re: Noprocrast (2010)

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Post by Darmody »

wott wrote: post #93
Darmody wrote: post #82

I added Reddit and some other sites to my uBlock blacklist because most of the time I would end up there unwillingly. Control + t (new tab), red (autocomplete to reddit) and enter. Muscular memory. Now uBlock tells me that the site is locked, I realize what I'm doing and I close the tab. That muscle memory is now gone. Sometimes duckduckgo returns me some useful reddit links and uBlock gives me the option to allow it…

That method didn't work for me (if I am thinking of the same thing you are describing, not sure). I would soon routinely unblock Reddit, so the block would become useless in achieving its purpose and become just an annoying extra layer. So what I did then was blocking specific subs (well, one actually, my national sub) in which I felt compelled to correct people all the time. On each browser on each computer I use, I…

As far as I know you can block certain subreddits, yes.

Re: Noprocrast (2010)

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Post by Darmody »

FPGAhacker wrote: post #83
Darmody wrote: post #82

I added Reddit and some other sites to my uBlock blacklist because most of the time I would end up there unwillingly. Control + t (new tab), red (autocomplete to reddit) and enter. Muscular memory. Now uBlock tells me that the site is locked, I realize what I'm doing and I close the tab. That muscle memory is now gone. Sometimes duckduckgo returns me some useful reddit links and uBlock gives me the option to allow it…

I had to do the same with a number of my favorite news sites, including hacker news, while I’m working. It was shocking how many times I would open the browser to Google something and find myself reading stupid political news instead of working. I also installed a cli google searcher. That was helpful too.

Yes, it's mind blowing how much of my procrastination is pure muscle memory and routine.
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