Are you making something?

This is an oldie (15 years already), but I think the idea might be useful, seeing how we find ourselves with ever decreasing attention spans and bombarded by distractions:

Simple but bold: Only use your computer for work. Real work. The work of making something.

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Now, when you pick up the iPad, you can say to yourself, “break time.” And if you find yourself taking a lot of that break time, you’ve just learned something important.

(Found via digging through the archives of an old blog of mine)