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Stopping habitual time-wasting on twitter

Quit using twitter for three weeks. Do it in a way that will require a password reset.

  1. Make sure you're comfortable with your twitter page looking the same for a long period of time.
  2. Post a simple tweet saying you'll be gone. Mine was #hiatus.
  3. Generate a random password and copy it to the clipboard. A one-liner that does it in OS X is provided at the bottom.
  4. Delete all GUI twitter clients from all devices. For me, this meant my MBP, my iPad, and my iPhone.
  5. Log out of twitter on all browsers, except one.
  6. Go to the password change page in settings. Paste the password in twice and save it.
  7. Log out.
  8. Copy something, so the random password is no longer in the clipboard.
  9. Use GitHub, good blogs, email, and (gasp!) IRL to interact with people.

ruby -e "require 'rubygems'; require 'active_support/secure_random'; print SecureRandom.hex(20);" | pbcopy

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