Houshalter comments on [LINK] How A Lamp Took Away My Reading And A Box Brought It Back - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Houshalter 01 February 2016 04:27:23PM 3 points [-]

He's posting this right after he got a new kindle. Of course if you buy a fancy new device you are going to use it more at first. Let's see if, a year later, he continues reading in bed, or goes back to his phone.

I know that sounds overly cynical, but I have made minor changes to my life that made big improvements. And I wanted to post about them going "hey guys this one weird trick totally changed my life!" And then a week later I was back to my old habits. The enthusiasm around the new idea turned out to be more important than the change itself.