Is this modded up to #1 so we can all feel good about ourselves? "Everyone on HN is so interesting I just can't get enough!!11"? Puh-lease.
Anyway, I used to be really bad about reading social news sites. The good news is that programming Reddit eventually scared me away because people are so willfully ignorant, and don't want to hear anything they don't already like. Think religious fundamentalists, but even worse.
This has given me a lot of free time. Now when I feel like reading Reddit, I instead open up my TODO list (a plain text file), and pick one thing to do. While I'm there, I also add two more things. I'm not missing anything on Reddit (if there's something really cool, it will be here), and I'm getting real work done instead of wasting my life. (And not getting mad at 13 year old kids that think they're programmers.)
Noprocrast is nice, but it's even better if you convince yourself to not even want to waste time.
Anyway, I used to be really bad about reading social news sites. The good news is that programming Reddit eventually scared me away because people are so willfully ignorant, and don't want to hear anything they don't already like. Think religious fundamentalists, but even worse.
This has given me a lot of free time. Now when I feel like reading Reddit, I instead open up my TODO list (a plain text file), and pick one thing to do. While I'm there, I also add two more things. I'm not missing anything on Reddit (if there's something really cool, it will be here), and I'm getting real work done instead of wasting my life. (And not getting mad at 13 year old kids that think they're programmers.)
Noprocrast is nice, but it's even better if you convince yourself to not even want to waste time.