[mike_mg]

> Does anybody else feel that way?

oh yeah, sure!

2 actionable things that changed my view on this things completely:

1) Huberman lab podcast on dopamine: https://hubermanlab.com/how-to-increase-motivation-and-drive.... It's not some self help BS, all based on science, backed by publications.

TL; DR, you might be riding too high on dopamine / layering too many dopaminergic activities. You might need to lower your base dopamine level.

2) for dealing with youtube specifically, block youtube recommended. Like youtube becomes only search bar, no recommended, no follow up videos etc. Complete game-changer for me.

https://pawelurbanek.com/youtube-addiction-selfcontrol https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29485064 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pawurb

@pawurb, thank you for changing my life by unlocking youtube for me, without the addiction. I am very grateful.

[beezlebroxxxxxx]

I think I've ran into some criticisms of Huberman for often citing animal studies as equally applicable to human studies. Tbf, I like Huberman generally, but I do also think he's very good at making every single thing he says "science based" as if the existence of a single finding from a one-off study on mice is somehow iron clad confirmation and proof in favor of his specific recommendation.

But his general recommendations are usually pretty good and he has good guests sometimes.

[mike_mg]

Indeed, citing animal studies for humans is a classic bio meme: https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice

I haven't seen huberman accused of this yet, interesting. Innocent until proven guilty?

[ivansavz]

Wow, the youtube uBlock rules hack is brilliant!

I think I will gain 3+ hours of my life back per day. Thank you so much for sharing!

[officeplant]

A podcast would come up in a discussion about addiction to podcasts and other media.

But also thanks I'm gonna add this to my list as well.