> Richtel, to his credit, focuses at the end of his piece on a distracted student who can, indeed, focus — not on the books he’s assigned but on the video he’s

> Richtel, to his credit, focuses at the end of his piece on a distracted student who can, indeed, focus — not on the books he’s assigned but on the video he’s making. Maybe that’s because he’s creating. Maybe it’s because he’s working with tools that give him feedback. Maybe it’s because he is communicating with an audience. Maybe he's interested in the video and not on the book? I have several tickets piled up in JIRA that I really am not interested in. (Really, really not interested) I'd rather be spending my entire day on hacker news. Instead I only stop by every few hours to clear my brain between tickets. Discipline is useful and not easy to learn.