“Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!” -Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche noticed the importance of this even living in solitude a century before the Internet- he found even if he read books in it morning, it could “poison” his thinking the rest of the day, so he didn’t read until he was done working. Like him or not he stands out as someone that consistently came up with really creative and new perspectives, and managed to publish a lot of writing on them.

I think this is true, but find the Internet very addicting- it is really hard to just not use it casually until I’m done working, when my work itself requires being on a computer and looking up information. The Internet is a nuclear bomb of distraction and emotional manipulation compared to whatever books Nietzsche was likely reading in the 1800s.