Working without internet

[jack]

On Friday, I turned the internet off (well, just my main sources of procrastination) while I was working. I immediately felt massively better. I've kept it up for two days now with reasonable success -- can I keep it going?

I've tried that before, but it never worked. I think it helps when I've reached the point where I _can_ work, but am being distracted, but didn't make much difference when something was preventing me working whether I was distracted or not.

Although I'm still not working as consistently hard as when I had the goad of working closely with someone else every day.

Comments

[andrewducker]

If only large chunks of my job weren't googling "Why does this system not work when I do this thing to it?!?!?!?"

[jack]

Yes :)

I think the problem I've had before is that I've not actually been able to work. So I've either disabled the internet entirely (and it's still not helped, plus I can't google) or I've disabled a few of the common sites I use socially but not productively by munging the domain name in the hosts file (which has led to me reading other sites instead, even if I'm not that interested).

Whereas here, I disabled the obvious sites, so I break the habit of "not sure what to do next, alt-tab, open gmail for a minute", but then I actually was able to return to work.