Focus

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1. siversMar 2012
   Yes! I agree! This is one of our biggest current challenges!

   Actually, Paul Graham has written two of the best essays about it:

   http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

   and

   http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html

   “Focus” by Leo Babauta is quite good, too: http://sivers.org/book/Focus

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2. mcantorJun 2011
   This reminds me of a less developed version of the advice Leo Babauta gives in his short book, "Focus":

   http://focusmanifesto.com/

   I highly recommend it. It takes maybe a couple of hours to read, and it's very dense with good ideas, suggestions and observations about how we interact with distractions. He doesn't go the extreme route of destroying them like this article's author; instead, he acknowledges that distraction can be fun and even a necessity to inspiration, but that we need the tools to quash it when we need to focus.

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