mindgraffiti

At work there are many time wasters to be found. How to get things done, with the enticing lure of play just one link away? Set up banned links for yourself. At home, I don’t care if I fall down the rabbit hole, chasing link after link until I have stumbled upon a site that is both interesting and yet undiscovered by StumbleUpon users. At work, this is the blacklist: no visiting these sites at all, because if I do…oops! I just blinked and 3 hours have gone by!

1. Facebook - I can spend hours looking at the albums my friends have uploaded. I feel obligated to read every note posted by every friend.

2. YouTube - One video leads to another video, leads to another. Hey! Wait a second! All I was doing was watching a funny 2 minute video of some cats.  How did I end up watching a video of some 4  year old playing the guitar like he’s the next Mozart?

3. Shockwave - Not for the reasons you may think. The web-based games and downloadable games do not work on my Mac. I keep away from this one because it encourages me to analyze how the game was built. Like everything else on the web, I enjoy pulling apart the pieces to see exactly how the insides work.

What time sinks do you ban, when you have to get things done?