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_When I’m in my most distractible place I don’t chew my thoughts properly. The most productive times in my life are the ones where I’m just doing my own thing, focused, and trying to solve some problem that I find interesting–when I’m narrowly distracted. I’ve met people who are very into model trains, or knitting, or coding games for the Commodore 64, and I feel a real kinship because they find the same pleasure in their activity that I do from writing and programming.

I’m very paranoid about any metric of productivity. One person’s wasted time is another person’s productivity. For most of my life people saw me doing the things I liked to do and said, “you have too much free time on your hands.” I’ve decided that when you hear that, it means you’re doing something right._

[Guest post: More on distractions, from Paul Ford 43 Folders]1

this is a great article. now i must go get narrowly distracted by cleaning.

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