Productivity software that blocks distracting websites and applications — known for being the most aggressive and difficult-to-circumvent of the blocking tools, making it impossible to whitelist blocked sites until the timer expires.
Represents the commitment device approach to digital distraction — making the block genuinely binding rather than easily overridden — implementing Ulysses-contract logic (bind your future self before temptation arrives) in software form.
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