[sotojuan]

> and Reddit does not count as reading)

This is the key point, honestly. Hacker News and other online forums are fun and all, but ultimately they waste so much time.

About film: If you have Hulu, watch the Criterion Collection films on it. Criterion is a company that releases and remasters some of the best films of all time (from all countries!), and about 600 of them are on Hulu[1].

[1] https://www.criterion.com/library/expanded_view?m=hulu&p=1

[ak39]

Here's what I have discovered recently about the way I read & pay attention after habitual use of Reddit/HN:

I have "trained my brain" to scan headlines very quickly to see if they are relevant or of interest to me. Consequently, I have developed a troubling trait of reading most things only to "cognitively dump" immediately thereafter. I now find that I cannot hold concentration to read larger tracts of writing. Or that I will read something but fail to recall only moments later.