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Jacob Carr

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I'm a computer science student in the UK and the author of 2,500 Hours, a short book on reclaiming the hours your screens take.
I learned all of this the slow way. For years, my evenings vanished into video games. Building games instead of playing them won back some of those hours, and student life promptly swallowed them: coursework, personal projects, student groups, and exams, all fighting for the same narrow window. I binged productivity YouTube too, felt sharper every time, and changed nothing.
What finally worked wasn't intensity — it was testing the techniques instead of watching them, cutting whatever didn't earn its place, and doing a little, consistently.
2,500 Hours is the blueprint I wish I'd started with, kept deliberately short: ...more

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“Stop being hacked. Start being the hacker.”
― Jacob Carr, 2,500 Hours: The modern system for reclaiming the hours your screens take

tags: distractions, notifications, peace-of-mind

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“You don’t think your way into starting. You start your way into wanting to carry on.”
― Jacob Carr, 2,500 Hours: The modern system for reclaiming the hours your screens take

tags: goals, habits, just-start, motivation, procrastination

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“When everyone has the same superpower, the edge is how you ask.”
― Jacob Carr, 2,500 Hours: The modern system for reclaiming the hours your screens take

tags: artificial-intelligence

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“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
― Bruce Lee

tags: inspirational, motivation, priorities, simplicity, wisdom

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“Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.”
― Peter F. Drucker

tags: leadership

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“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

tags: inspirational

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“You don’t think your way into starting. You start your way into wanting to carry on.”
― Jacob Carr, 2,500 Hours: The modern system for reclaiming the hours your screens take

tags: goals, habits, just-start, motivation, procrastination

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“When everyone has the same superpower, the edge is how you ask.”
― Jacob Carr, 2,500 Hours: The modern system for reclaiming the hours your screens take