[gnarbarian]

hacker News is definitely part of the problem. I've started to use three rules to evaluate habits similar to hacker news. eliminate things that:

1) are unproductive 2) I do not enjoy 3) are pathological (This includes things that float around in your head and create negative thoughts after you do it. coming back to a very negative political argument as an example of this)

I'm not perfect at applying them but it has dramatically improved my life because it has given me a tool to evaluate social media use And I have successfully ramped down use of social media that made my life worse.