[steve8918]

I agree. I don't like it when some random blogger talks with fake authority on an issue and boils it down to some black-and-white binary comparison.

That being said, one thing I realized last week is that I distract myself way too much while I'm supposed to be working. Starting tomorrow (I don't plan on working today), I'm closing my e-mail, IM, Facebook, Words with Friends and stock charts and hope that increases my overall productivity, which has been extremely, extremely poor over the last 6 weeks.

[indubitably]

> Starting tomorrow

No you're not. I mean, come on. This guy is advocating an asocial lifestyle. We live in our computational environments, and we need constant contact with the world outside that environment, even though we're _using_ that environment to make the contact.

We're human beings, not machines.

[jgeerts]

That's what I thought too, not talking to your co-workers is a bridge too far and the consequence for doing the meditation is that everybody in your company will know you. But there is a lot of truth to what he is saying and I often find myself in the distraction loop he is describing. If you plan out your day more structured you will get more result, I agree on that. He is also describing what our bosses expect from us, writing code most of the time. But we often read HN, facebook, twitter... We need breaks but I indeed handle them unstructured. I will take some, but not all of his advice.