I completely agree with you, but you quoted the blog post and left out the most important part of the author's sentence:
> I wanted to see if I had the willpower to cut off all stimulation for an extended period of time.
To be fair to you though, that part of the sentence was preceded with the part you quoted, making it natural to assume that the author believes the solution to his problem of being addicted to what he says he's addicted to is to have zero stimulation. That doesn't mean my assumption is correct though, and it seems even less so given the plain language I quoted above.
> I wanted to see if I had the willpower to cut off all stimulation for an extended period of time.
To be fair to you though, that part of the sentence was preceded with the part you quoted, making it natural to assume that the author believes the solution to his problem of being addicted to what he says he's addicted to is to have zero stimulation. That doesn't mean my assumption is correct though, and it seems even less so given the plain language I quoted above.