Regular Reveries 26: Primary Contexts for Devices
I hope you're doing well, being careful, and spending some quality time outdoors.
Since coming back to Twitter, I've noticed that I've started to check it even when I should be focusing on more productive tasks.
I easily get distracted and then spend some time switching between Twitter, Reddit, and news portals. I want to stop this unhealthy behavior, so I've blocked these websites on my computer yet again.
I'll experiment with giving primary contexts to my devices. Instead of doing a little bit of everything on each of them, I want to start:
- using a computer primarily for writing and programming
- using a tablet primarily for reading
- using a phone primarily for discovering things with a limit for social media use
This list is sorted by device productivity, while the most productive is on top. The goal of this is to associate the device with a certain behavior. Instead of social media and news polluting all devices, it is contained inside the least productive device: the phone.
This week's article
I've published two shorter TIL articles this week. The first one describes how I organize my snippets and the second one contains a shortcut for duplicating tabs in Chrome that you might not be aware of.
Content candy
The Evolution of Trust is an amazing interactive guide to the game theory. Although it first appeared in 2017, it's still a great way to learn the basics of game theory and play with the intricacies of prisoner's dilemma interactively.
Something to think about
"We are punished by our sins, not for them." — Elbert Hubbard
Question for you
Are you a conventional or an independent thinker?
Inspired by the recent article by Paul Graham - How to Think for Yourself.