Hearing so many people complain about the time they spend on facebook has gotten me thinking of how I spend my own time on the internet. I don't really sit on facebook or any other common social media sites to any significant degree and many friends think I'm almost a luddite. But simultaneously I feel like I'm waaaaaaay too distracted by information online. But for me it's no different than it was 20 years ago. There are a million forums out there with super interesting information. In fact over the years I've only become more specialized in my information consumption in ways that are _almost_ good. I.e. I tend to keep up on different technical news and read into technology in general pretty deeply and this has had positive effects on my career. And so it's sometimes good because I get some good knowledge, but at the same time if I'm reading about how to implement stuff in FPGAs to avoid doing my taxes I'm definitely not making much sense in the long run.

I'm trying to get myself more organized and to instead focus on slightly longer projects with determined goals, but I really have a hard time breaking my habits of information ingestion. In many ways the internet has helped me grow intellectually so much, but simultaneously I feel like I lose any sense of present and physical presense. And it's just so hard for me to focus and do the mundane things that I find uninteresting.

I think I'll post this and then close out HN for a bit. Traveling for the weekend so maybe I can sucessfully limit myself to only actually necessary internet usage and avoid any consumption of unimportant crap. We'll just have to see...