I'm with you.

I also ride my bike 5-7 days a week, upwards of an hour or more. It's very "liberating" and I mostly think the whole time. I don't bring any tech, just myself and the bike, moving very fast. People cant interrupt you, unless you run over one. ;)

I do the same thing running every day... running with a headset should be forbidden :)

I was coming in here prepared to make a remark that the new structure of this society necessitates a balancing act of and/or trade-off between an expanded flow of information and solitude but your post pre-empts this argument by suggesting that they are not mutually exclusive.

And I am inclined to agree on second thought.

You've made 452 comments here, a 3.86/day average for the 117 days since you've registered.

Somehow that doesn't strike me as a behavior pattern of someone fully in control of his web browsing habits.

I think I win, or lose, depending on your point of view. Most people consider me fairly well-adjusted and successful. (Quote my aunt, to my cousin: "See, you can like geeky things and still grow up to be a productive member of society.)

Nobody says boo about someone who watches 3.86 thirty minute episodes of TV a day, or who writes 3.86 pages of email a day, by the by.

I say 4 things a day on a website and that's obsessive?

I choose what articles to comment on. There are a LOT more than 4 per day. I choose WHEN to comment on those. I don't have an RSS feed on my phone that alerts me to new stories so I can be first. I post when -I- read the RSS feed and see something worth commenting on.

That really depends, it seems reasonable that someone could comment at that rate and still make the claim if they allotted an amount of time to browse and engage on hacker news each day. Also commenting rates vary a lot between people, I may spend hours here and only make a couple of comments. Others may comment more frequently or focus on the shorter material.