Distractions
Two Paul Ford references in as many days. Sorry about that, but this one’s a great read: Are There “Good” Distractions?. I read it and thought “I really should follow up on that info-diet idea.” But instead I followed a bunch of links off that page, read a bunch of random stuff, then wandered back into an IDE to debug a C# implementation of the ATOM interface. Heartless Bastards playing on iTunes. Spam piling up in my inbox. IM windows left dangling mid-chat. I thought about all my personal projects- the code and music and quasi-art I have laying around half-finished because I got distracted by something else. I feel like I don’t get anything done any more.
One time when we met for lunch Bryan and Brent told me that I have too much time on my hands.
Sayeth Paul Ford:
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.
Anyhoo, back to coding.
Hmmm … computer imitating brain vs brain imitating computer vs imitating human imitating coded respose to stimuli??? what would yogi say;
1)windows open and close but doors shut and lock you can jump through both but if you try to walk through both only one will cut you.
2) I once had a “broad distraction”, she’s now my wife.
3) I tried to use a computer to teach me how to read but i kept getting distracted reading the pop-up windows.
4) time- its never enough though you’re always spending it.
ramdung
27 Oct 05 at 4:47 pm