[[reddit page]]
Luke (thinking): I shouldn't be looking at Reddit. Why can't I stop?
[[CNN page]]
Luke (thinking): Refreshing CNN gaain. Do news stories so affect my life that I benefit from checking them more than once a day?
[[shutdown screen]]
Luke (thinking): I should at leas check Faceb... no. Screw it. I can't do my job when I'm distracting myself every five minutes like this.
[[two people before a battlefield screen]]
Guy: His computer's off. Luke - You've switched off your targeting computer. What's wrong?
Luke: Nothing. I'm all right.
{{Title text: 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.}}
Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The algorithm killed Jeeves. The algorithm is banned in China. The algorithm is from Jersey. The algorithm constantly finds Jesus. This is not the algorithm. This is close.