What really helped me regain A LOT of the lost time:

1. Do NOT open the Medium Daily Digest as the first thing in the morning. It's easy to lose hours reading kinda interesting but not really necessary to know posts. Don't fall for it, they won't change you life. They are simply means for the authors to make living.

2. Fight the urge to write responses to those posts. No one cares what you think about it.

Right, today I lost on both fronts... ;-)