And if true, this is also scary. 3.5 hours a week that could be put towards building real social relationships, just dumped into the digital black hole.
- Digging through Google search results
- Scouring Reddit threads
- Going down accidental rabbit holes based on search results that are unrelated to what I'm looking for but nonetheless catch my eye
- Similar rabbit holes on YouTube
- Searching the documentation of various projects/libraries
I've started using these tools more because I can be more focused and productive. I realize that not all use cases resemble mine, but I can think of a lot of non-scary reasons to be spending more time with these tools.
And when compared with the digital black holes that most people are already spending significant time on, or historical TV viewing numbers, this doesn't seem that worrisome at all.
It’s just 30 minutes a day.