Thinking about a way to ease back into using Hacker News and Twitter again. Some questions I'm asking myself.
- How many times per day do I allow myself to use? Once, twice, or more? Time limit?
- Trade-off between using in the morning versus at night?
- Mobile and/or desktop?
- When is enough? When you are eating food, your body tells you when you've had enough. When consuming digital content, how do you know you are full?
So far I think I'd like to set a rule where I use HN and Twitter only on my computer during weekdays in the early to late afternoon. It will be an intentional time set aside for checking both. Hopefully, it won't become an impulsive habit then.
I will stay signed out of HN and Twitter when I'm not using them and turn on a custom Stylus rule that hides the page HTML.
Going to keep thinking about these type of questions and come up with a plan before returning to both.