My current anti-procrastination experiment: using trivial inconveniences for good. I have installed a very strong, permanent block on my laptop, and still allow myself to go on my favourite time wasters, but only on my tablet, which I carry with me as well.

The rationale is not to block all use and therefore be forced to mechanically learn workarounds, but to have a trivially inconvenient procrastination method always available. The interesting thing is that tablets are perfect for content consumption, so the separation works well. It also helps me to separate the contexts well, so I don't sit on the laptop "to work" but end up browsing around. Its also good for making me self aware of what I am doing at any given time, on a physical level. Finally, I tend to reject hard restrictions, but trivial inconveniences may be a good balance.

So far, the results are very encouraging, time on hacker news and news sites is way down. I have been doing this for a couple of weeks, so I am not over the two month honeymoon yet, but if anyone else wants to give this a shot and let me know how it works out, then more data for all of us!