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The problem is not to restrict your access, but to change your desire. There's a much deeper problem if you require hand-slapping to stop you viewing sites like reddit while at work.
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What? Do you really do this? It would drive me insane. Every 48 minutes you're interrupted by an alarm forcing you to stop what you're doing, get up, lose your train of thought, and then start over again? Also, you can't reliably separate the work computer from the internet one if you want to search the web for help/resources. How do you manage that?
From your own web site, http://30dayflight.com/ ... It is impossible for me to achieve the minimum level of awesomeness that I require of articles before I publish them within just a few hours in a single day, so I'm going to switch to a 3- or 5-day publishing timespan. This will hopefully keep me from going totally insane. For someone who so goes "insane" and finds things "impossible" so easily, perhaps you should o…
Why do all that, why not use freedom? http://macfreedom.com/
After reading this, I feel editing /etc/hosts is a better option.
My Keep-Working Hack: 2 computers. One for work. One for internet. In different rooms. An egg timer. 48 minutes of work. 12 minutes of break. http://successbeginstoday.org/wordpress/2006/09/the-power-of... http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html
That works for those of us with two computers. I wish there was a way of routinely disabling the Internet, rather than having me manually do it.
We're actually pretty close to this (just soft-launched our windows version-- mac version hot on its heels). Starting with focus "toggling" ("Shut of the bad parts of the internet for 30 minutes") and moving on to nudges ("let me know when I exceed 30m of news time") and blocking ("block social networking if I exceed X hours or X %").
Disabling the internet is a baby/bathwater thing for a lot of people, I think. There's too much value there to turn it off completely (research, etc).
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What? Do you really do this? It would drive me insane. Every 48 minutes you're interrupted by an alarm forcing you to stop what you're doing, get up, lose your train of thought, and then start over again? Also, you can't reliably separate the work computer from the internet one if you want to search the web for help/resources. How do you manage that?
From your own web site, http://30dayflight.com/ ... It is impossible for me to achieve the minimum level of awesomeness that I require of articles before I publish them within just a few hours in a single day, so I'm going to switch to a 3- or 5-day publishing timespan. This will hopefully keep me from going totally insane. For someone who so goes "insane" and finds things "impossible" so easily, perhaps you should o…
Step 1. Whenever I feel the 'urge' to read e.g. HN, I close my eyes and quit my browser. Then I breathe slowly and deeply three times, holding it for about 5 secs.
Usually that does it, I regain my senses and go back to work. If it doesn't work:
Step 2. I have to stare at my screen and say, out loud, "I'm the man. I'm getting shit done. I'm King fking Kong." I try to do a victorious or chest-beating gesture as well. Usually I get a little mini-dopamine rush, and then off I go.
I rarely get to step 3. But if the first two steps don't work
Step 3. I'm not allowed to do any work for the next 120 minutes, at all. I can do whatever I want, but nothing useful or productive.
That last one is nuclear. Think about it - if every time you look at that HN toolbar button, you know you're going to lose 2 minimum hours ... would you click it?
It also helps to have free time later to enjoy HN at one's leisure (something that is obviously not the case with smoking..)