In the past I’ve manually edited my hosts file to point time-wasting sites to 127.0.0.1, which is a small obstacle at most—I can easily edit it back—but is enough of a speedbump to remind me “oh, right, I’m trying to avoid that right now.” This time I haven’t needed to; I managed to become so frustrated with the fact that my queue was saturated with short-term rewards that weren’t netting me anything in the long run that choosing not to visit the sites doesn’t seem to require much willpower.
This leads me to wonder whether I could eliminate other influences I want to avoid by making myself sufficiently frustrated with them, but that seems like it would be an unpleasant skill to pick up.
In the past I’ve manually edited my hosts file to point time-wasting sites to 127.0.0.1, which is a small obstacle at most—I can easily edit it back—but is enough of a speedbump to remind me “oh, right, I’m trying to avoid that right now.” This time I haven’t needed to; I managed to become so frustrated with the fact that my queue was saturated with short-term rewards that weren’t netting me anything in the long run that choosing not to visit the sites doesn’t seem to require much willpower.
This leads me to wonder whether I could eliminate other influences I want to avoid by making myself sufficiently frustrated with them, but that seems like it would be an unpleasant skill to pick up.