[dmdeller]

I have a separate local user account on my computer for work. When I start work in the morning, I switch to the work user and all of my personal stuff goes away. When I'm done with work at night, I switch back, all my personal stuff comes back and work goes away. It's almost like having a separate computer.

People often look at me like I'm crazy when I tell them this. I haven't quite figured out why.

If I need to look up some personal thing in the middle of the day, I reach for my phone. If I find I've been reaching for my phone too much that day, I get up and put it on the other side of the room. Now every would-be distraction requires me to physically move my entire body.

[mod]

For me it involves like 10 keystrokes.

Ctrl+Shift+N -> "new" -> select auto complete to hacker news -> enter.

This place can suck my whole day away, and because I'm a web developer and work in the browser constantly, there's no easy way to dodge it.

I can do things like blocking dns lookups or browser extensions but then I outsmart myself.

[quicklyfrozen]

So I guess HN is part of your "work" set up :-)