Absolutely the case for me. Small fun projects that would take a few hours to round off a feature can now be done in an hour. Why wouldn't i finish it off?
Unfortunately if you don't start out using that, then your email address is already spread across the web. And back when I was looking at gitlab/bitbucket/etc for feature comparison, each forge used their own domain and couldn't be persuaded to combine commits from multiple addresses into your own profile (to be clear, that's not really necessary, but it does make it more difficult to find a commit created by someone when their commit address isn't the address associated with their account)
I realised that if I exclusively read business news I can avoid a good amount of the fluff and sensationalism. I made a browser extension which pushes the headlines from Bloomberg, Financial times Euronews Business and a few others on to my new tab from their RSS, and it's more than enough to give me a nugget of what's going on in the world without being overloaded. 1 item per new tab.
End result is: I don't read the news, but I still know what's going on without the need for Social Media's hot take.
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