[…] 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. […]