Ask HN: What sites do you visit daily?

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Post by iloverss » Wed, Aug 10, 2022, 10:34 AM UTC

I love reading the the stories that make it to the top of Hacker News and (for better or worse) it's part of my daily routine. I also bounce around a few news sites too (Tech Crunch, The Verge, BBC News).

On the flip side, I find that my productivity gets zapped by checking on all these sites and whenever I have a few spare minutes - I often find myself 'checking' these sites in case there is anything I have missed.

I do use a rss reader, but I always find myself drawn back to the browser!

Just wondering what works for others in managing their media diet.

So my question is two parts: What sites do you visit daily? What do you do to ensure it doesn't impact your productivity?

Cheers :)

Re: Ask HN: What sites do you visit daily?

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Post by McButz » Wed, Aug 10, 2022, 10:52 AM UTC

I'm trying to follow prolific twitter accounts. - reddit's /r/MachineLearning: @slashML - Yan LeCun @ylecun

Re: Ask HN: What sites do you visit daily?

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Post by theGeatZhopa » Wed, Aug 10, 2022, 11:13 AM UTC

I visit news sources daily.

It does not impact my productivity, as I do the readings in my "spare" time or before going to bed.

What did impact my productivity was these moments when you receive a new email, a call, or notifications (WhatsApp, followed Websites.. etc..) and smoking a cigarette

Each short break has a effect of breaking your concentration and you need to re-think and work yourself in again. In a creativity process, this is good. But not in a thinking/coding/designing process.

So my solution to this was to unsubscribe all notifications and RSS feeds = Minimizing distractions while work time. But, as smoking is a human right this is still a distraction I won't minimize :)

If you don't need the (information) RSS feeds for your work, I would start here.

Having that, you need to monitor your movings. Take notes on time needed for ex-work and work doings.. you'll see quite fast what does distract/brake your productivity.

For me, I approx. know how much time is needed for something. Taking notes shows f.e. much more needed time. So, by that, it's possible to find out which doings distract you so much.