[HN Gopher] The Top-Shelf Principle
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       The Top-Shelf Principle
        
       Author : gurjeet
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2021-08-09 22:08 UTC (52 minutes ago)
        
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       | 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.
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       | 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.
        
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