When was the last time you were bored and in silence?
For the record, it was 2 days ago.
like blocking all recommendations on YouTube via the Unhook add-on [Chrome, Firefox]
Woah — you just gave me agency over YouTube! Thanks so much, this is looking like it will really change my relationship with the site to be much more intentional (e.g. I like how it makes it so I can default to only seeing my subscriptions).
Here’s my main tip to add to the book: Have well-defined exception handling which you never ever ever have to deviate from… My procedure was “If I need to use a forbidden functionality, then I have to write what I did down on a slip of paper and leave it on my girlfriend’s desk ASAP.”
When I did 2 weeks of no devices, my procedure (which I remember telling you in a LW PM like 6 months ago) was “you can do a thing on your device if you wrote it down on a piece of paper yesterday”. That worked well for me while I was in more of a vacation mode.
I write blogposts before then, and I won’t check their reception until the next week (I used to nervously refresh).
Very cool to hear you that you do this! Congratulations. For me I don’t check until 24 hours have passed, and never do refreshes. I do like responding to comments faster than 1 week. But yeah, the repeated refresh while your post has no karma and one unhelpful comment is not worth it.
For news, I purchased a digital+print subscription to The Economist. Once a month, I can choose to read the four issues for an hour or two.
The one I’ve been meaning to move to is, once a month, check the top-voted stories on HN that month.
For the record, it was 2 days ago.
Woah — you just gave me agency over YouTube! Thanks so much, this is looking like it will really change my relationship with the site to be much more intentional (e.g. I like how it makes it so I can default to only seeing my subscriptions).
When I did 2 weeks of no devices, my procedure (which I remember telling you in a LW PM like 6 months ago) was “you can do a thing on your device if you wrote it down on a piece of paper yesterday”. That worked well for me while I was in more of a vacation mode.
Very cool to hear you that you do this! Congratulations. For me I don’t check until 24 hours have passed, and never do refreshes. I do like responding to comments faster than 1 week. But yeah, the repeated refresh while your post has no karma and one unhelpful comment is not worth it.
The one I’ve been meaning to move to is, once a month, check the top-voted stories on HN that month.