Kaj_Sotala comments on Basics of Animal Reinforcement - Less Wrong

45 Post author: Yvain 05 July 2011 08:42PM

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 06 July 2011 09:15:32AM 5 points [-]

Other examples include checking for Facebook notifications, new e-mails, replies to your Less Wrong comments, or highlights/interesting discussions on IRC.

Those four combined have caused serious damage to my productivity, to the point where I'm forced to use things like LeechBlock and limiting myself to a slow Internet connection to stop myself from checking them all the time. And even those measures frequently fail.