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August 19, 2009 at 2:30pm
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I love this idea.  They are creating an application that, “For the duration that you enter, we’re going to turn off the bad/distracting parts of the internet”.
The insight here is that we are very bad at understanding when we are distracted (otherwise distractions wouldn’t be distractions), but I wonder if use of this app isn’t highly correlated with self-aware folks that might already be decent at self requalting.

I love this idea.  They are creating an application that, “For the duration that you enter, we’re going to turn off the bad/distracting parts of the internet”.

The insight here is that we are very bad at understanding when we are distracted (otherwise distractions wouldn’t be distractions), but I wonder if use of this app isn’t highly correlated with self-aware folks that might already be decent at self requalting.