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Distractions are not necessarily a bad thing, in fact, they aid the process of discovery. The issue is that nowadays our distractions are "on demand" and "perso
by iliketosleep 11y ago
Distractions are not necessarily a bad thing, in fact, they aid the process of discovery. The issue is that nowadays our distractions are "on demand" and "personalized", which, if we're not careful, can take away the benefits and leave us worse off.
- gtirloni 11y agoI think the overall complain is that discovery never gives way to creating and it frustrates people. Sort of like when we spend all day reading about which programming language is the best for this and that but there are zero lines of code written at the end of the day.
- iliketosleep 11y agoi see what you're saying, but i wouldn't say never. the odd time that distraction does lead to creation could in fact be very significant. i'd be very surprised if there weren't some startup ideas born out of distraction :)