[ohyes]

If you find yourself getting distracted a ton, maybe you should take a step back and look at what you are working on?

Do you believe in it?

Do you find it challenging and interesting?

Are you working on something that is important to you and makes a difference?

It isn't about every individual piece of the software being important, it is about being excited about the sum-total and wanting it to be the best that it can be.

I think of it kind of like momentum. You need enough momentum from rolling down the big hill of 'oh my god i'm working on this cool thing', to be able to deal with the uphill of 'mundane crap'.

If you are starting surf HN/Reddit/Facebook like an ADD net-squirrel, maybe you need to work on something cool that you actually want to work on. When you've gotten to a good/excited place on the cool thing, switch back to the mundane crap.