Let Go

After years of trying various methods, I broke this habit by pitting my impatience against my laziness. I decoupled the action and the neurological reward by setting up a simple 30-second delay I had to wait through, in which I couldn't do anything else, before any new page or chat client would load (and only allowed one to run at once). The urge to check all those sites magically vanished--and my 'productive' computer use was unaffected.

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🤔 WHY DOES THIS EXIST?

Randall Monroe's art is INCREDIBLY BAD. Sometimes the jokes are funny, but their usually just CONFUSING. AI isn't funny enough to fix his jokes, but it can FIX HIS ART.

SOMEBODY had to do SOMETHING about it. Unfortunately, that person is ME...and Nano Banana 2, which is the DA VINCI OF AI.

If you feel as bad for Randall as I do, you would buy one of his books OUT OF PITY.

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