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Ask HN: What sites do you visit daily?

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I love reading the the stories that make it to the top of Hacker News and (for better or worse) it's part of my daily routine. I also bounce around a few news sites too (Tech Crunch, The Verge, BBC News).

On the flip side, I find that my productivity gets zapped by checking on all these sites and whenever I have a few spare minutes - I often find myself 'checking' these sites in case there is anything I have missed.

I do use a rss reader, but I always find myself drawn back to the browser!

Just wondering what works for others in managing their media diet.

So my question is two parts: What sites do you visit daily? What do you do to ensure it doesn't impact your productivity?

Cheers :)

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I visit news sources daily.

It does not impact my productivity, as I do the readings in my "spare" time or before going to bed.

What did impact my productivity was these moments when you receive a new email, a call, or notifications (WhatsApp, followed Websites.. etc..) and smoking a cigarette

Each short break has a effect of breaking your concentration and you need to re-think and work yourself in again. In a creativity process, this is good. But not in a thinking/coding/designing process.

So my solution to this was to unsubscribe all notifications and RSS feeds = Minimizing distractions while work time. But, as smoking is a human right this is still a distraction I won't minimize :)

If you don't need the (information) RSS feeds for your work, I would start here.

Having that, you need to monitor your movings. Take notes on time needed for ex-work and work doings.. you'll see quite fast what does distract/brake your productivity.

For me, I approx. know how much time is needed for something. Taking notes shows f.e. much more needed time. So, by that, it's possible to find out which doings distract you so much.

Google, youtube, nu.nl, HN, Twitter, bank, in house tooling, pianojacq.com (no, really).

I'm trying to follow prolific twitter accounts. - reddit's /r/MachineLearning: @slashML - Yan LeCun @ylecun

https://news.ycombinator.com/

tech news: hackernews, verge and tech crunch

politics: eksisozluk and aposto(turkish), bbc and financial times(global)

social media: twitter, linkedin, mastodon

entertainment: youtube, spotify and bflix

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