For me what seems to work when dealing with any sort of vice or bad habit, has been to learn about the physiological factors of why say certain things are addictive and tend to lead to procrastination. In terms of doom scrolling, social media, and behavioral addictions at large, the book Dopamine Nation by Anne Lembke gave me insights into understanding what exactly is happening within the brain that lead to us mindlessly scrolling through social media. She was also on the Huberman podcast if you are interested in hearing her knowledge.

With that being said, I also have the tendency to mindlessly roam around the internet. When I had IG on my phone I would go on there every time I was bored or didn't know what to do, but deleting it helped immensely. I also am prone to watching a lot of videos on YouTube so what has helped me there is to put a limit on how many videos (any online video, not just YouTube) a day I can watch. Currently the limit is 5 videos a day. This way I'm much more mindful and particular when it comes to choosing the videos I watch in a day.

What I've learned is that the internet and the digital world is near infinite in information and content, whereas, we humans have finite lives and operate better within the parameters of scarcity. As we know when comparing Bitcoin with fiat, fiat is a shit show because it is essentially infinite in supply whereas Bitcoin is digitally scarce. Therefore, humans just do not do well with things that are infinite in supply such as fiat and the internet. Thus, what I try to do nowadays is to create my own form of internet "scarcity" if you will, by making the watching of online videos a scarce commodity of 5 videos per day, as well as limiting until what time I can be online (Lembke refers to this as digital intermittent fasting). By creating your own version of internet scarcity, the internet is no longer this overwhelming, procrastination inducing monster that controls your life, but a valuable tool that you now have control over.