My Month of (Almost) No Internet

By Leo Babauta I’m starting 2014 with the hardest month of my Year of Living Without so far: no Internet all day. OK, let’s rephrase that — I’m not going to use the Internet all day, except to post stuff to my blogs/sites or for programming. And for an hour at 5pm each day. That means from morning until 5pm, I can’t check email, read stuff online, do admin stuff for my business online, go to my bank websites, look stuff up. To be clear, here are the only exceptions: To look stuff up or read about programming. This is because I’m spending about half of each day in January to learn programming. I started learning before, but just a little each day, and it wasn’t enough to overcome the difficult stuff after you learn easy beginner stuff. Yes, I’ve done CodeAcademy and similar tutorials, but no, they don’t get you to the point where you can build stuff yourself. I’m going to build a web app in January using Javascript/JQuery/Node.js, and I’ll need to Google stuff to learn syntax and figure out problems and stuff. I’m also reading Eloquent Javascript and then will tackle Javascript: the Good Parts. To post content online. This is basically to post a new article to Zen Habits, mnmlist, unschoolery, Sea Change and the like. I’m going to write it all offline, then go online for a minute just to post it. No checking email or Twitter. For an hour at 5pm each day. I still have a business to run, so at 5p...
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