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I am tracking my productivity day-by-day. It's generally sloppy, but there were a few outliers where I got done a lot. All these days had one thing in common: I forgot my smartphone at home.

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That's my main reason (and battery life) for not having a smartphone. I have the attention span of a gnat and a smartphone would totally wreck my productivity. My general way of dealing with addictive substances is to ban them from my life entirely, that seems to work well so far.

except HN? ;)

I really tried, I swear.

As a techie, I find it exceedingly hard to ban myself from here. Setting up a work-around for browser blocks, dns blocks, etc--takes a couple of minutes at best, not to mention there's a ton of pages where they just use the api and create their own interface.

I usually just edit my hosts file now, because it prevents the 2-second "ctrl+t, n, enter" combo and makes me think about what I'm doing.

I don't restrict myself outside of working hours.

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