I used to think website blockers were enough. They were not. I could block Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, whatever. Then five minutes later I would end up on the same sites through some side door: recommendations inside another app "just checking" a creator page search results that turned into a feed one innocent click that became twenty minutes gone That was the real problem. The issue was not access to a domain. The issue was the feed itself. So I built Monk Mode, a macOS app that blocks distractions at the feed level instead of only blocking whole websites. That difference matters more than I expected. When you block an entire site, you often also block the useful part: messages work groups documentation a specific video you actually needed When you block the feed, you can keep the useful surface and remove the slot machine. That has been a much better mental model for me. A few things I learned while building it: 1. Most distraction is frictionless, not intentional I rarely decided to waste time.…