I have eleven minutes to write and post this, and I have to say, I’ll rather write this in Sublime than in this tiny modal window, or whatever it is called.

So that is what I’m doing now. My week has been busy, I have bought a couple of books, even went and got myself a few manga volumes, brought back my website from silence, bought two diaries (which are gorgeous), and finally understood that spending time on any kind of social media not only consumes my time, but also consumes my creativity in ways I do not have the words to describe. It just drains me.

So let me talk about my fix: if you remember my Leave a Tide Pool Challenge from a few months back, I combined that with Deep Work and Creativity, by Newport, and Csíkszentmihályi, respectively.
You restrict your access to Social Media. I did this by using a Firefox plugin to do so, and below I will post the link to the plugin, as well as my own config.

That is it. Two hours of Social per day, tops, split up by a huge chunk of time reserved for deep work.
That is how you fix everything.

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matchSubdomains=false
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allowLBWebsite=true
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Go be free!

twenty seconds now

Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas