He never mentioned being productive. If you're confusing "focusing my attention" with being productive, you've read too many lifehacker posts. Now, "put up al

He never mentioned being productive. If you're confusing "focusing my attention" with being productive, you've read too many lifehacker posts. Now, "put up all of your problems on a piece of paper" is a great suggestion, I've started writing down everything I want to look into, every feature idea I have, or technique I want to try, along the lines of the idea files that get posted here on HN, although more discrete and less focused. I have hundreds of them that haven't been done, and may never get done, but writing them down made me think of 2 or 3 more, and maybe one of those got done, and is making me productive. I don't keep track of how many there are, or how many I've done, that's not important. Really, it isn't, I didn't even believe so myself until I tried it. This list actually started out as a todo list and has grown into something far more valuable.