{"id":461,"date":"2018-10-07T22:05:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T22:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bjornonl.wordpress.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2018-10-07T22:05:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T22:05:04","slug":"digital-inefficiency-a-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/2018\/10\/07\/digital-inefficiency-a-confession\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital (in)efficiency: A confession"},"content":{"rendered":"

The web is an amazing tool to work efficiently in the global research environment. For example, I can’t imagine what writing literature reviews was like before the search engines helped us to scan millions of PDFs. As I’ve already described in an earlier post<\/a>, I am a keen user of twitter, wordpress, skype, and google drive to work efficiently as a researcher. But when reading the ONL blogs by Rita<\/a> and\u00a0Linda<\/a>\u00a0(great cartoons!), I was inspired to add a few words about how I cope with my digital inefficiency<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Here’s the confession: I’m an addict. I check news sites, my email, and twitter far too often. I’m not an extrovert social media user trying to get likes, but I read, read, read what other people write about politics, finance (my field of research) and everything else. Whenever I get stuck in writing, coding or thinking, the web is there offering endless procrastination.<\/p>\n

Luckily, the web also offers therapy. For all my computers, I use the StayFocusd<\/a> plugin to limit the use of my favorite time-thieves to 5 minutes per day and device. It’s very efficient, giving me this message whenever my time is up:<\/p>\n

\"Sk\u00e4rmklipp\"<\/p>\n

\"omg\"<\/p>\n

For my cell phone, I have uninstalled all news, email, and social media apps. But a true addict will of course still find them through the web browser… To avoid that, I got a lifetime subscription of the Freedom app<\/a>, which blocks websites at preset times of the day. I currently allow mobile browsing during lunch time (12-13), on the way home from work (17-18), and then after the kids bedtime.<\/p>\n

It’s crazy. I pay my cell phone operator to be able to surf the web, and then I pay freedom to limit it. But it works, and I will keep adding new blocks whenever I figure out how to get around the current ones \"?\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The web is an amazing tool to work efficiently in the global research environment. For example, I can’t imagine what writing literature reviews was like before the search engines helped us to scan millions of PDFs. As I’ve already described in an earlier post, I am a keen user of twitter, wordpress, skype, and google … Continue reading “Digital (in)efficiency: A confession”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2028,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/2028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}