Yeah, people will sometimes judge, but I try to explain the why. “I’m doing this so that I can pay attention. It sounds counterintuitive but it is not.” I had

Yeah, people will sometimes judge, but I try to explain the why. “I’m doing this so that I can pay attention. It sounds counterintuitive but it is not.” I had an editor once (I should note, he went on to become my mentor), get really frustrated that I wasn’t “paying attention” and he quizzed me like we were in school and I just rattled off a complete list of everything that had been discussed, as well as some ideas that hadn’t — and he kind of looked stunned. I told him (again), dude, there’s a method to my madness. He never got mad at me for “playing on my phone” in an editors meeting again.