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"How to get more done by pretending you’re on an airplane"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 29 June 2011 @ 10:01am Comments (2)
http://westernthm.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/how-to-increase-productivity-by-pretending-youre-on-an-airplane/
A sign of the times: social-bookmarking a blog post about productivity in which a full four of the eight suggestions are variations on "turn off the Internet."
Mark A. McCutcheon
Professor of Literary Studies & Chair of Centre for Humanities, Athabasca U
Comments
A friend swears by 'Freedom,' a piece of software that allows you to voluntarily lock yourself out of the internet for up to eight hours at a time. It reminds me of those programs where you can ban yourself from casinos.
Reminds me of Atwood's Handmaid's Tale: "We used to have freedom to. Now we have freedom from." (Or it went something like that.)
I do like the suggestion about screen-hogging word processors. I checked out Ommwriter but I don't do much writing on the Mac. I should cast about for PC equivalents.