Day 283: The Most Productive Way to Spend Time on the Internet

My answer on Quora for a popular question: “What are the most productive ways to spend time on the Internet?”

It’s a popular question indeed, as it attracted more than a hundred answers, many of them are long and carefully prepared, and there is even a “wiki-like” section to summarize the answers. However, until today it still strikes me that the wiki section is actually a list of “helpful” websites to spend time on: online courses, educational Youtube channels, TED talks, etc. Even Wikipedia itself was listed there. And that kind of answer (listing the “useful” website as a solution to “spending time on the internet productively”) baffled me quite a bit. Seriously folks?

The idea of the first part in my answer was inspired from a blog post by “The minimalists” (by the way, these guys created a great blog, I’ll have a post or two about some interesting content I found there too).  Well to be honest I couldn’t do as I wrote in my answer. However there’s a short duration that I’ll remember: that was when I moved to a new apartment and it took 11 days for the ISP to activate internet access in my apartment. At first I thought I couldn’t survive such a long period but I did survive.

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It really depends on your job, your reading hobby, your preferences, etc. — so I think people who are listing the “useful” web pages to spend time on, are missing the point.