What works best for me. Leaving phone at home when I meet people. It's not always possible, obviously, but if I know the address, I might take a db phone for emergencies. Or even, just a paper with the phone number.
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#22I've succesfully rolled out a (IMHO) better version of the "Freedom" app, that comes with a load of other benefits like being cheaper and even more effective. My phone can only make calls and texts because it's a dumb phone, and I have to go to my computer if I want to waste time on the internet.
Can we have a look at it ? / Give it a try ?
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#23Today I learned that people pay money for an app that stops them from using a (probably expensive) phone. And not just a few people, but enough for the Freedom app to have 2 investment rounds and 11-50 employees[0]. Is it just me, or does that sound like something has gone horribly wrong somewhere? Why not just mute all notifications, or put the phone on silent or airplane mode, or switch it off, or even just replace it with a dumb phone?
And as an aside, I have a theory that the attention/distraction economy is not exclusively the fault of Big Tech spending billions working out how to "steal" people's attention, but also has an element of people being much more easily distracted nowadays thanks to rise of pointless jobs, unfulfilling personal lives, etc.
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#24How many of us are currently distracted checking HN rather than concentrating on our work?
I'm convinced that procrastination is not the problem with social media - it is FOMO. In this regard social media are not all equal, there is a hierarchy. In this way hackernews as social media is nearly a misnomer, I am not being projected upon by the perfect life of a billion people, algorithmically picked by my insecurities.
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#25I just uninstalled the Facebook and Twitter apps. I can still log into the website if someone sends me a link, but there's more friction and there are no notifications pulling me in. Highly recommend.
I found disabling notifications and moving the app off the Home Screen did the trick for me. I unintentionally weaned myself off Facebook. Facebook did this to themself. When they started throwing irrelevant push notifications at me I couldn’t turn off, I just disabled ALL of them. That was a dumbass invasive move on their part which I’m sure hurt more than it helped their engagement.
It's possible that they found out that the vast majority of users don't disable the notifications so you would fall in the minority who do. Still worth it for them
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#26How many of us are currently distracted checking HN rather than concentrating on our work?
I'm distracting myself from the mandatory unnecessary meeting which is distracting me from my work.
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#27Today I learned that people pay money for an app that stops them from using a (probably expensive) phone. And not just a few people, but enough for the Freedom app to have 2 investment rounds and 11-50 employees[0]. Is it just me, or does that sound like something has gone horribly wrong somewhere? Why not just mute all notifications, or put the phone on silent or airplane mode, or switch it off, or even just replace…
Some people wants to consume being low tech and crying it out loud, not just being low tech.
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#28Today I learned that people pay money for an app that stops them from using a (probably expensive) phone. And not just a few people, but enough for the Freedom app to have 2 investment rounds and 11-50 employees[0]. Is it just me, or does that sound like something has gone horribly wrong somewhere? Why not just mute all notifications, or put the phone on silent or airplane mode, or switch it off, or even just replace…
Desire and willpower are actually quite weak tools to affect behaviour. I definitely fall into the camp of people who find it more effective to alter my environment to introduce friction against behaviours I want to reduce, and reduce barriers to behaviour I would like to engage in more.
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#29Today I learned that people pay money for an app that stops them from using a (probably expensive) phone. And not just a few people, but enough for the Freedom app to have 2 investment rounds and 11-50 employees[0]. Is it just me, or does that sound like something has gone horribly wrong somewhere? Why not just mute all notifications, or put the phone on silent or airplane mode, or switch it off, or even just replace…
Such apps are fighting a symptom and won't solve the underlying cause of their problems. It's a bit like the pomodoro technique. It can work for a short-term task but won't solve the problems in the long run.
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#30Today I learned that people pay money for an app that stops them from using a (probably expensive) phone. And not just a few people, but enough for the Freedom app to have 2 investment rounds and 11-50 employees[0]. Is it just me, or does that sound like something has gone horribly wrong somewhere? Why not just mute all notifications, or put the phone on silent or airplane mode, or switch it off, or even just replace…
> being much more easily distracted nowadays thanks to rise of pointless jobs, unfulfilling personal lives, etc.
There's this guy, about 150 years ago, that had a theory about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation