I have not had much luck with this kind of strategy in the past, although I did successfully quit reddit by editing my hosts file.
Outsmarting Yourself for Success
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Re: Outsmarting Yourself for Success
#12I don't like the tone of this sort of piece. The capitalizations and bolding, the oversimplified assertions of "caveman brain" and "rational brain". It probably has valid advice, but it rings quackery alarms.
It's because it looks like a landing page for an internet marketing ebook. I scrolled to the bottom to make sure it wasn't that or a mailing list full of the secrets for success that somehow got to the frontpage.
It's a landing page for a software to-do list. Somehow the guy lands the HN front page with a vague blog post every 2-3 weeks.
Re: Outsmarting Yourself for Success
#13tl;dr: Set yourself up so that choosing a path leading to failure is harder than choosing the path leading to success. There is a kernel of truth in all the long-form dramatization.
Re: Outsmarting Yourself for Success
#14More self-help masturbation on HN. Flagged.