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Is being constant online killing my productivity?

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Hi, I am a 34 years old guy with ADHD. I remember times in late 90s and early 2000s when I haven't got access to the Internet. I was a young boy then who loved to tinker with computers - knowing every part of the UI of Windows 98 and playing around. Back then I used to be creative and able to do cool stuff on my computer. Right now I have a feeling that my attention and focus got stolen everytime I need to check something online. I know that the modern social media and Internet in general is designed that way. And I know the mechanism but got tricked anyway. Does anybody now have a computer with limited access to the internet or have a completely offline machine? I wonder how I can trick myself to be productive again. FOMO and content consuming is destroying my brain and I would like to be that curious child again that makes things. How do you tackle this issues?

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aurizon
You are legion, it used to be pulp SF novels for me, now all the fascinating content from youtube/audio books and the many educational streams of this and that also consume too many of my daily hours. How to solve? - that is the problem...
rgbswan
Sprinkle sprinkle ... Irrelevance to the rescue! Most of the things you are checking online, are, even if they are THE SHIT, entirely irrelevant to you and your life. Neither are they that interesting anymore.

But whatever you build, your own take on something even casual, THAT would be interesting, even more so with regards to your character ark, your growth, your traversal of the tech and skills tree ;)

Wherever your mind wanders will evolve with whatever your fingers, willpower, grit and senses can build. You are ADHD. Don't let the attention-pussy-grabbers hold you back ;3

JojoFatsani
Having ADHD doesn’t mean you can’t have discipline. Work on building healthy technology habits, including setting limits and limiting notifications. You’ll be shocked how little you miss the excessive content consumption.