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adamzerner comments on A list of apps that are useful to me. (And other phone details) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: adamzerner 22 August 2015 10:39:17PM 1 point [-]

Blocking websites I used to procrastinate has been helpful for me.

It's funny - if I really wanted to, I could take 30 seconds to google the article, type in the commands to unblock the websites, and then use them to procrastinate. But I don't. The 20-30 seconds is enough to prevent me to do it.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 23 August 2015 08:17:29PM 1 point [-]

Applied Beware Trivial Inconveniences. I used that too some time ago to reduce procrastinating on my favorite pages. I just added them to /etc/hosts.

Comment author: gjm 23 August 2015 09:49:55AM 1 point [-]

I wonder whether being effectively blocked by that 30-second obstacle is correlated with needing the blocking in the first place.

(It feels like it might be; on the other hand, I am a terrible procrastinator but strongly suspect that the 30-second obstacles would not suffice for me. Though perhaps I think that as an excuse for not putting the obstacles in place...)