Good question @David James ! I struggle with maintaining a long term block of social media, because there’s very little that I can’t get around, and I have cripplingly little self control in the moment- the basic issue is that I have no history of making promises to myself and then keeping them. This is just a problem which I have to engineer around. The whole line of thought may not be relevant for people who can just decide not to do a thing.
Disabling more buttons and infinite scroll is particularly effective because looking at the front page of hacker news reliably provides in the moment evidence that the second page of hacker news is unlikely to contain nirvana, but looking at a (hacker news blocked) page makes the first page of hacker news seem so tempting and sweet to pursue.
@Hastings … I don’t think I made a comment in this thread—and I don’t see one when I look. I wonder if you are replying to a different one? Link it if you find it?
Good question @David James !
I struggle with maintaining a long term block of social media, because there’s very little that I can’t get around, and I have cripplingly little self control in the moment- the basic issue is that I have no history of making promises to myself and then keeping them. This is just a problem which I have to engineer around. The whole line of thought may not be relevant for people who can just decide not to do a thing.
Disabling more buttons and infinite scroll is particularly effective because looking at the front page of hacker news reliably provides in the moment evidence that the second page of hacker news is unlikely to contain nirvana, but looking at a (hacker news blocked) page makes the first page of hacker news seem so tempting and sweet to pursue.
@Hastings … I don’t think I made a comment in this thread—and I don’t see one when I look. I wonder if you are replying to a different one? Link it if you find it?
He is presumably referring to your inline reacts: