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Really? Mine is profitable...
Really? What sort of margins are you getting for her per hour?
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I just added a list of websites to the hosts file, but the thing is - I know how to unlock that stuff in a few seconds (and LeechBlock can be turned off even faster). I wish I could lock websites between certain hours at the ISP level, and unlocking shouldn't be easy, and should take a few hours.
Do it at the router level and then reset the password to gibberish.
"Hiring a slapper off Craigslist" has quite a different meaning in British English...
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/13/3/219.short
Procrastination is all too familiar to most people. People delay writing up their research (so we hear!), repeatedly declare they will start their diets tomorrow, or postpone until next week doing odd jobs around the house. Yet people also sometimes attempt to control their procrastination by setting deadlines for themselves. In this article, we pose three questions: (a) Are people willing to self-impose meaningful (i.e., costly) deadlines to overcome procrastination? (b) Are self-imposed deadlines effective in improving task performance? (c) When self-imposing deadlines, do people set them optimally, for maximum performance enhancement? A set of studies examined these issues experimentally, showing that the answer is “yes” to the first two questions, and “nO'’ to the third. People have self-control problems, they recognize them, and they try to control them by self-imposing costly deadlines. These deadlines help people control procrastination, but they are not as effective as some externally imposed deadlines in improving task performance.
The most important thing I got out of this article isn't the productivity 'hack' but the fact that there's a program called RescueTime that lets you find out exactly how much time you spent on your computer doing what.. o_O I didn't know about that! I have long suspected that I have an HN addiction. Time to quantify it! For others: https://www.rescuetime.com/ EDIT: Haha, while setting it up I found that the rescuetim…
I use a similar program that is called ManicTime: http://www.manictime.com/ I can't recall what I didn't like about RescueTime, but the free version of ManicTime gives me a very good breakdown for my purposes. FWIW, I spend on average close to 2 hours a day (of 10 hours in my office) browsing the web, and only 2/3 hours of real productivity (I hate my job).