Nah, you don't understand. Even saying "get lost, I'm thinking" requires focus of Feynman, so by that time many already suffered. Keeping notes - good luck with

Nah, you don't understand. Even saying "get lost, I'm thinking" requires focus of Feynman, so by that time many already suffered. Keeping notes - good luck with that, if you thinking about something sufficiently vague, as in like 90+% cases happens to many - programmers. So stopping being passive aggressive is tantamount to cleverly preventing those distractions from happening in the first place - see e.g. Graham's piece with different time of work advice. And in those rare cases when you do need to drop everything - well, that'd better happen at most once a year, or you'll lose more than a few hours each time.