Consumption vs creation, and making camp in a corner of the web

I've been in a consumption slump for way too long. I've never been one to be easily addicted. Sometimes I develop short-term addictions to things, but am able to drop something with relative ease once I realize it's bad for me or just get bored with it. My current problem is wasting too much time consuming things of varying value—articles about work-tangential topics, TV shows and movies, random…