Facebook. Twitter. Uninstalled. What about a moratorium on Hacker News? Personally, I could have launched several apps with the time I've spent reading Hacker News. However, I get a lot out of HN ... Damn ...
We have to stop spending time on these sites, even when it seems valuable. Nothing is as valuable as actually building something and interacting with users.
I have wondered about this as well. I am considering two strategies:
1) Stop checking HN at all, and subscribe to Hacker Monthly (http://hackermonthly.com/), which is the best articles of the month in a nice format.
2) Schedule a time to check it once a week, and only look at the list of posts with over 200 points. http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=200
We have to stop spending time on these sites, even when it seems valuable. Nothing is as valuable as actually building something and interacting with users.