This is certainly interesting! Though I will note that I find it pretty easy to block a bunch of websites with Freedom (and apps on desktop and portable devices!). They have a list of buttons that groups websites together. And then after a work session, I evaluate if the website was a time-waster for my work-time, if it was, I block it. I don’t find it too difficult. You just gotta be honest with yourself whether a website is wasting your time or not.
For example, I used to be able to convince myself that I need YouTube to be productive sometimes so I wouldn’t block it. Which was true sometimes, but then I’d often get sucked into a YouTube black hole of worthless videos. It’s just the kind of thing you can convince yourself, “I really need to look at this for work.” But actually no, it can wait and you are just rationalizing yourself out of actually doing hard (the most important) work.
So, now I have it blocked for most of the day and just download videos when it’s unblocked if I really need the video (I’ve been going through Andrej Karpathy’s videos every morning doing this, for example).
Honestly, I’m now on the verge of blocking LessWrong and the EA forum for most of the day too now! If I need a post, I’ll read it when I’m unblocked or read it through my article saver app.
This is certainly interesting! Though I will note that I find it pretty easy to block a bunch of websites with Freedom (and apps on desktop and portable devices!). They have a list of buttons that groups websites together. And then after a work session, I evaluate if the website was a time-waster for my work-time, if it was, I block it. I don’t find it too difficult. You just gotta be honest with yourself whether a website is wasting your time or not.
For example, I used to be able to convince myself that I need YouTube to be productive sometimes so I wouldn’t block it. Which was true sometimes, but then I’d often get sucked into a YouTube black hole of worthless videos. It’s just the kind of thing you can convince yourself, “I really need to look at this for work.” But actually no, it can wait and you are just rationalizing yourself out of actually doing hard (the most important) work.
So, now I have it blocked for most of the day and just download videos when it’s unblocked if I really need the video (I’ve been going through Andrej Karpathy’s videos every morning doing this, for example).
Honestly, I’m now on the verge of blocking LessWrong and the EA forum for most of the day too now! If I need a post, I’ll read it when I’m unblocked or read it through my article saver app.