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One thing I'd add to this is to schedule it in the future. Sometimes, you can't bring yourself to block all websites right now, but you can happily make it a problem for your future self. I've written a similar script to do this and had success with it.

Something like:

checking 60m --start-in 30m




This is an excellent application of George Ainslie’s concept of future reward discounting. Very powerful concept that can be fruitfully applied to all sorts of things in life: http://www.picoeconomics.org/


sleep 30m; checking 60m




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