[HN Gopher] The Top-Shelf Principle ___________________________________________________________________ The Top-Shelf Principle Author : gurjeet Score : 6 points Date : 2021-08-09 22:08 UTC (52 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (listed.to) (TXT) w3m dump (listed.to) | handrous wrote: | Similar observation here. I can't change jack-shit about my | habits if I don't engineer my environment to make it happen. I | suspect that's basically the norm for most people, and the | author's observation that kids transparently work this way is | spot-on--but so do most adults. | | The biggest impediment these days is ubiquitous, always-on | Internet. In some ways I miss when it was a place you had to go | (a physical desktop sitting somewhere) and something you had to | decide to turn on (with some delay, so you wouldn't do it on a | whim), as in the dial-up days. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-08-09 23:01 UTC)