Very, very much agree with this. The nuggets of wait time are just long enough to get distracted, but not long enough to accomplish anything worthwhile.

My best "hack" for this has been to use Freedom[1] to create a blocklist of all my go-to time sucks (including, sadly, HN). This at least stops me from getting pulled in too deeply.

[1] http://freedom.to/

This is why I don’t use any of the reasoning models, they take too long and then I get tempted to do other things. Slightly “dumber” (but faster) models actually result in higher productivity for me.