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Comment author: kurokikaze 30 June 2011 10:59:32AM *  1 point [-]

I want to lower my "off-topic" Internet usage when I'm on work.

What do I have now:

  1. No penalties for surfing Reddit if the work is done on time
  2. RescueTime for counting hours I spend on work and hours I spend on various lolcats (right now my efficiency is 0.5, which mean ~ 1 hour of reddit per 1.6 hours of work)

Why I want to do that? To have more time for my own projects and work.

What's keeping me from doing that:

  1. I'm afraid to burn out doing only the programming-related stuff.
  2. Some sites are just addictive (yes, Reddit, I'm looking at you).
  3. I'm slightly tired from two years long project (I'm going to vacation in less than 1 month).
Comment author: Armok_GoB 30 June 2011 12:37:23PM 2 points [-]

Ask someone to look over your shoulder at random times but maybe once per 10min on average.

Comment author: kurokikaze 30 June 2011 02:26:45PM 1 point [-]

Hm, I don't want to distract even more people from their duties, but this may work. I'll see what I can do.

Still, more ideas are welcome.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 30 June 2011 06:11:07PM 2 points [-]

You could set a timer/scrip to remind you to look over your own shoulder.

Comment author: handoflixue 30 June 2011 06:50:43PM 1 point [-]

It's entirely possible you have at least one co-worker with the same issue, who is also interested in fixing it. You could thus offer a mutual benefit :)

Comment author: beoShaffer 30 June 2011 08:10:31PM 1 point [-]

I know someone IRL who was having that problem. They modified their computer so that they were simply unable to access certain sites*. I believe it involved having the browser block certain IP addresses but I can't really remember. *It was possible to undo this but it took far to much work for a stalling activity.

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 30 June 2011 09:02:40PM 2 points [-]

Leechblock, yo.

Comment author: Nornagest 30 June 2011 09:28:36PM 0 points [-]

Leechblock's never worked for me. It prevents me from visiting the sites I normally use to procrastinate, but it doesn't actually decrease procrastination; it just makes it more tedious and frustrating.

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 30 June 2011 10:06:27PM 0 points [-]

The point of it isn't exactly to stop you from procrastinating, as I see it. The point of it is to remove specific temptations that you have particular trouble overcoming. You still have to actually decide to do the work, even if you block everything and have to decide to do the work rather than, say, going for a walk or something. (That, and you can use 'I'll turn leechblock off when I've accomplished X' as a motivation source, which is pretty useful for me at least.) If you're not in a mindset like 'I want to do X, but my habit of doing Y instead is getting in the way of that and annoying me', it's probably not going to help much.

Comment author: kurokikaze 30 June 2011 08:59:30PM *  1 point [-]

Ha, I've written delaying proxy for this just like in xkcd.

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