[williamkennedy]

This is similar to an argument made in Cal Newport's book Deep Focus. He also goes on to argue that since we are living in an attention-deficit economy in a time when it is needed most, learning to dig out these distractions is becoming more invaluable. Great book if anyone is interested in becoming more focused and less distracted like this article suggests.

[Phemist]

Loved the book, motivated me to cut out a lot of distractions in my daily work life, as well as take control in adjusting websites more to my needs (Writing small, custom tamper monkey javascript snippets to edit views of, for example, Facebook)

Just a small addendum, the book is called "Deep Work", not "Deep Focus"

[williamkennedy]

Thank you for correction, it is indeed called "Deep Work".