"Did I have it before Twitter became a demagogue’s pulpit? When it was just a few of us, goofing around?" If I had two points to up-vote a story, I'd give it t

"Did I have it before Twitter became a demagogue’s pulpit? When it was just a few of us, goofing around?" If I had two points to up-vote a story, I'd give it to this story. I have always been in the fight to maintain attention. I can remember cutting the wires to a radio to maintain focus, studying for school. For me the question I ask is, "How do I work on the Internet, but not be sucked down the addictive ^attention^ sucking black-hole?". This article is looking for this balance. [0] [0] I also note, pg updated his article "Disconnecting Distraction" noting the techniques he thought would work, do not. http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html