> *I'm currently going cold turkey on certain social media...* Don't you conside...

beat · on March 25, 2019

It is, but that's why I said "certain social media". Not trying to do it all. If HN started substituting for Facebook, I'd be worried, but that doesn't seem to be happening.

rhizome · on March 25, 2019

For me the bare-minimum of required functionality for SM is friending and JWZ's Law, so no.

beat · on March 25, 2019

I think of it more in terms of deliberately addictive behavior. HN is fun, but it doesn't have basic functions like infinite scrolling. The closest it has to addictive social media behavior is the upvote/downvote buttons. (See Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism for discussion about that problem.)

0xffff2 · on March 25, 2019

>JWZ's Law

Could you expand the acronym? I've never seen it and search results aren't helpful.

gpderetta · on March 25, 2019

jwz is Jamie Zawinski[1] of Netscape fame. The law states:

"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski

rhizome · on March 26, 2019

Whoops, yeah, I should have used the standard "Zawinsky's Law."