When it comes to learning on the internet (including, as wedrifid mentions, reading Graham’s essays, but excluding e.g. porn and celebrity gossip), I’d say It’s a lot less harmful and risky than being drunk, and probably helpful in a lot of ways. It’s certainly not making huge strides toward accomplishing your life’s goals, but it seems like a stretch to compare it to getting drunk.
When it comes to learning on the internet (including, as wedrifid mentions, reading Graham’s essays, but excluding e.g. porn and celebrity gossip), I’d say It’s a lot less harmful and risky than being drunk, and probably helpful in a lot of ways. It’s certainly not making huge strides toward accomplishing your life’s goals, but it seems like a stretch to compare it to getting drunk.
I think PG’s analogy referred to addictiveness, not harmfulness.
Is it bad if you’re addicted to good things?
If it’s getting in the way of other stuff you want/need to do, then yes. Otherwise probably no.
No, but in this case the addiction makes you worse off because surfing the net is worse than doing productive work.
What if I’m surfing the net for tips on how to increase my own productivity?