By removing Lifehacker from my newsfeed list, I've saved myself fifteen minutes per week of paging past dozens of pointless articles. I had subscribed to this a couple of years ago when I was desperate to improve my time organization & priortization skills, and the site had some practical tips.
However, the site has devolved into a sisyphean wheel of press releases, hints from Heloise, and ridiculously stupid ideas. Most practical tips are used up, and although they are reprinting old articles now, the site has become a time waster. And you know what to do with time wasters...
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I also culled a number of blogs from my list, chiefly some old co-workers blogs that have become endlessly tedious (unlike my own, I assure you!).
I still read The Daily Dish and Boing Boing, but those are easily accomplished in 5 minutes or so.
I've been on a media diet for a while, but yes, Lifehacker lasted about a week for me. Good idea taken to the wrong extreme.
Every time I find myself procrastinating, I leave it to Ze Frank to make me feel like utter crap.
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