{"id":1137,"date":"2008-11-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/11\/21\/1075\/"},"modified":"2008-11-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T23:00:00","slug":"1075","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/11\/21\/1075\/","title":{"rendered":"Disconnecting Distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Graham \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/distraction.html\">Disconnecting Distraction<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;After years of carefully avoiding classic time sinks like TV, games, and Usenet, I still managed to fall prey to distraction, because I didn&#8217;t realize that it evolves. Something that used to be safe, using the Internet, gradually became more and more dangerous. Some days I&#8217;d wake up, get a cup of tea and check the news, then check email, then check the news again, then answer a few emails, then suddenly notice it was almost lunchtime and I hadn&#8217;t gotten any real work done. And this started to happen more and more often.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Graham \u2013 Disconnecting Distraction: &#8222;After years of carefully avoiding classic time sinks like TV, games, and Usenet, I still managed to fall prey to distraction, because I didn&#8217;t realize that it evolves. Something that used to be safe, using the Internet, gradually became more and more dangerous. Some days I&#8217;d wake up, get a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}