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Re: Disconnect. Offline only

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mooreds wrote: post #61
beat wrote: post #41

For those interested in managing online time and getting ourselves offline regularly, the book Deep Work , by Cal Newport, has some very useful ideas. One that I plan to start experimenting with is the idea of scheduled internet access - allow yourself to get online only at certain times of day. This isn't just for work. Even if you're, say, standing in line at the grocery store, you don't get to pull your phone out…

> As the author points out, we've forgotten how to be bored. I find outdoor activity to be one of the best way to be 'bored'. You have to focus on what your body is doing, you're back in nature, you'll be getting exercise. Leave the podcast/spotify at home.

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Post by icantdrive55 »

beat wrote: post #41

For those interested in managing online time and getting ourselves offline regularly, the book Deep Work , by Cal Newport, has some very useful ideas. One that I plan to start experimenting with is the idea of scheduled internet access - allow yourself to get online only at certain times of day. This isn't just for work. Even if you're, say, standing in line at the grocery store, you don't get to pull your phone out…

My hope is looking at your phone/social media account will become like wearing fur.

Re: Disconnect. Offline only

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Post by gervase »

> your ability to Google something

In my opinion, this actually is something that makes me valuable. It doesn't matter how well you can synthesize information if you can't find it in the first place.

Having the ability to take a problem, figure out what you don't know, reprocess those parts into a format that Googles™ well, filter out the noise from the results, and only then synthesize the information gathered is actually not as common as you might think.

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Post by freehunter »

gordaco wrote: post #23
Freak_NL wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting. I have a smartphone that doesn't interrupt me at all, because it doesn't run any of the apps that tend to do so — this is a Meizu Pro5 running the now abandoned Ubuntu Touch; I'll probably jump over the UBports soon. It does have a web browser though. Last week I was in London as a tourist visitor, and being able to pull up the local public transit planner ( https://tfl.gov.uk ) and OpenStreetMap were ju…

After I install a program in my PC, the first thing I do is to disable all the sounds... and after I install an app in my phone, the first thing I do is to disable all the notifications.

On the flip side of that, I keep all notifications turned on and only selectively disable them when they start pushing complete nonsense or spam or ads to me. I get very focused and will forget to check email, forget to check Facebook, forget to check text messages, sometimes for days at a time. When I got an iPhone 6 and could no longer depend on the vibrate motor making an audible noise (seriously how terrible is the vibrations on the newer iPhones?) I got a Pebble watch so when the phone rings it actually physically sends me a push notification by buzzing.

Slack has this annoying habit on my work computer to not make an audible noise when I get a message even though that setting is turned on and I never check my Mac's dock when I'm working on something so I had to unhide the dock so I could see the notification come in.

Then again at one point in time I had alarms set on my phone telling me it was time to eat or time to go to bed because I will focus in on something so much that everything else disappears for hours at a time. Notifications help break me out of that to get back to the real world.

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Post by whatsreal »

norswap wrote: post #63
beat wrote: post #41

For those interested in managing online time and getting ourselves offline regularly, the book Deep Work , by Cal Newport, has some very useful ideas. One that I plan to start experimenting with is the idea of scheduled internet access - allow yourself to get online only at certain times of day. This isn't just for work. Even if you're, say, standing in line at the grocery store, you don't get to pull your phone out…

While I'm fond of "deep work the idea", the book was a real disappointment. It's mostly selling the idea instead of explaining how to do something with it. I followed the author's blog for a while, and I'd say a few key blog posts are enough to get the point accross. Even there it gets repetitive quickly. The idea is good, it just doesn't require so much elaboration.

Would you be willing to link to what you consider the key blog posts?

Thanks!

Re: Disconnect. Offline only

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Post by freehunter »

grecy wrote: post #26
m3rc wrote: post #25

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That's a great way to convince yourself you're becoming some sort of productivity Übermensch and never end up speaking to your friends again.

> and never end up speaking to your friends again. No, you just need to move to a place where nobody has a phone. It's great to spend every day outside having adventures, face to face with people!

I think "moving to a new, strange place" still includes "get rid of all of your existing friends".

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Post by hatsunearu »

binaryapparatus wrote: post #13

Doesn't work on FreeBSD/firefox? First I put interface down, so no network access, second try I physically pulled cable out. Nothing happens.

What a stupid and annoying gimmick. Author couldn't even be assed to check if it isn't horribly broken in a major browser.
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