How To Know What Is A Distraction vs. An Opportunity

Distractions are the assassins of great work. You don't need more time; you need more focus.

We experience the externalities of the attention economy in little drips, so we tend to describe them with words of mild bemusement like “annoying” or “distracting.” But this is a grave misreading of their nature. In the short term, distractions can keep us from doing the things we want to do. In the longer term, however, they can accumulate and ke... See more