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Comment by joubert | Hacker News Reader

that's just crazy

No crazier than Donald Knuth: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html

Or all the people who self-impose IP blocks against popular timewasting sites. Or people who have "noprocrast" enabled on HN.

We are not logical creatures, but we cope.

DK: "Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things."

Most of the time I like to be on top of things and I use email, IM, the web. Its not a distraction, because it is important for me to see whats happening around me.

So, horses for courses :-)

I turned noprocrast on, on a lark. I was obsessively distracting myself from a project that was too important to me to start and I figured it couldn't hurt. (Can't do poorly if you don't do at all.) Its been on for about 2 weeks now and I love it, most of the time I had taken to reading HN when I wanted to be doing other stuff. Now I read HN when I want to read HN (chrome's privacy mode is an easy work around) instead of when I'm avoiding other stuff.

It seems like once a day there's a well-received front-page article on time management, avoid distractions, multitasking, and all that. He claims that his method is a "very efficient use of [his] time". I don't see this as any different.

I don't actually know why he does this, but if I had as high a profile, and was as politically active as RMS, I might consider such measures if for no other reason than security. I imagine hacking his system would be a real feather in certain caps.

Then again, he may just be nuts...

---- (I don't really think he's nuts. Toleration of eccentricity is a sign of a high level of civilization.

That could actually work if you were trying to read articles. Other than that, I am not sure I would like to do it t

He also likes to pick stuff off of his feet and eat it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ

Absolutely repulsive. I'm sure I'll get a down-vote by the RMS Zealot Society because of saying that.

add.: I wonder if the down-voting is because of the "RMS Z S" remark, or because of the implied crowd of down-voters apparently thinks eating things off of ones own feet is acceptable when it's RMS doing it - I honestly don't know what to think.

That's a fake video. Can't you see that?

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