Viliam_Bur comments on Open Thread for January 8 - 16 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 09 January 2014 09:34:20PM 2 points [-]

Most productivity posts are about avoiding spending time web surfing

To avoid paradox, it is probably better to print those posts and read them from the paper.

But yes, it is a good advice, which probably brings more productivity gains than any other advice.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 10 January 2014 12:18:03AM 2 points [-]

While the direct advice may be valuable, I don't think it's so common; I'm talking about posts that take it as a given and talk about ways to beat addiction, such as leechblock, pomodoros, and conditioning. Other suggestions, like recording time spent, manually or by browser plugin are about convincing people that they are wasting their time, on the hypothesis that people won't believe the raw claim.