I’ve found Self Control (app) to be quite helpful. | by Nik Custodio | Medium

How I Used a Vacation Timer to Write a Book (or, Why I Shut Off the Internet at 9PM)

Jake Knapp

1 min readJul 28, 2016

I’ve found Self Control (app) to be quite helpful. Set your “blacklist” and your timer — and voila, bye bye Reddit, Medium, twitter for a few hours. Can’t cheat it, and easier to install ;)

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