My roommate and I had a no-internet day last week. It worked surprisingly well. One of the key reasons I didn’t crumble and turn our router back on was that I wanted my roommate to be productive. It’s easy for me to play off my own need to be productive, but I’m less cavalier with the productivity of someone else.
I know that personally this would require a day or two of preperation, but it might not be typical of everyone else that in order to do what I ought to do I need to download the PDFs, watch the videos, consult Wolfram Alpha, etc.
On the other hand, the idea of a no-internet day is pretty exciting, as that same workflow is too easy to derail with Facebook or Less Wrong.
My roommate and I had a no-internet day last week. It worked surprisingly well. One of the key reasons I didn’t crumble and turn our router back on was that I wanted my roommate to be productive. It’s easy for me to play off my own need to be productive, but I’m less cavalier with the productivity of someone else.
Just one day? Do you plan to repeat it?
I plan on repeating it again, if I can convince my roommate!
I know that personally this would require a day or two of preperation, but it might not be typical of everyone else that in order to do what I ought to do I need to download the PDFs, watch the videos, consult Wolfram Alpha, etc.
On the other hand, the idea of a no-internet day is pretty exciting, as that same workflow is too easy to derail with Facebook or Less Wrong.