For the past year I've spent mornings with the WiFi off—amazing how much reliable deep states of focus are for me that way.
Great for writing, sketching, data analysis… but Figma! Figma makes me turn the WiFi on! Amazing what a difference that makes in how deep I get (or not).
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I was really excited to learn this morning that if I turn the WiFi on for just a minute and open the Figma document, then I can turn it off again and it'll save the offline work and sync up later. Will be interesting to see in my working journals how much diff that makes.
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Funny how much of a monkey I am; so helpless. Sure, yes, many years of meditation make me more likely to notice grasping impulses… but having the WiFi on is still so much worse for a certain kind of deliberate work than having it off.
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twitter.com/zhayitong/stat This is a good strategy! I do this too! But, I'll tell myself, I need to gather some visual reference… I need to see how X app does this interaction. Then 2 hours later…
No! I don't! If I *couldn't*, I'd be fine without. But be cause I *can*…
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I use the self control app and block pretty much anything other than Google docs and Figma
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I like setting timers for this sort of thing—OK, fine, I need to look at reference Y. If, five minutes from now, I still think I need that, then OK, I'm allowed!
I pair that with an Alfred command that turns the WiFi on for a fixed duration, then off again ("wifi 3" for 3 min)
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You might enjoy this: raptitude.com/2022/02/what-i
“Putting the Internet back into a box in the basement.”
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I can’t recall the source now but I read somewhere that people who seem to be very disciplined largely have been able to structure environments to support their choices. So the higher one’s awareness and sensitivity of one’s frail and fallible human-ness..
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.. the better able you are to design a system that performs those persuasive background diving-catches on willpower and decision making, and the less subject to frailty/fallibility your outcomes will seem.
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