[bewareandaware]

I constantly read articles like these and keep thinking - if you lose this distraction, soon you'll find another one.

I noticed a few months ago that hackernews and reddit were sucking more and more time out of my life. So I installed impulse blocker, removed the apps from my smartphone, thinking I would get so much more free time. Guess what, I was wrong - I just spent my free time with other distractions, sometimes to a much worse net benefit. Not reading HN would mean to lose the thin grasp I've got on state-of-the art tech and all the panoplia of interesting content.

I've tried the folder before, as well as turning the screen gray (guess what, most apps don't have enough brightness contrast to be really usable while on grayscale), and nothing worked.

Maybe distractions can also be positive in your life - I surely enjoy watching a documentary to spend time, and the entertainment it gives you also brings something valuable to your life, while r/funny or facebook don't. Maybe the trick is to select when you wanna have trivial fun and stick to that.