Wasting and hour a day on hacker news increased my productivity tremendously. I have had cases where I have a problem and the solution is on first page. Or a simple search can find a lot off good info even better than stackoverflow. Pretty nice side effect for non QA site.
totally agree. Working too much without knowing what happens around the world is bad.
But I am sometimes stuck in one side of these, too much involving social or too much working. Finding my own balance