PG's articles on this topic is very good, IMO. The level of stimulation around us has gone way up. Our ability to deal with it culturally and psychologically h

PG's articles on this topic is very good, IMO. The level of stimulation around us has gone way up. Our ability to deal with it culturally and psychologically has not gone up the same way. Whether the answer is to limit our exposure, envelop discipline or whatever, I think it's up to the individual at present to figure out a way. The scary trap is: It's easy to consider procrastination/distraction a little problem. It is not. Maybe we need to treat "distraction" like dieting or quitting smoking. That's disconcerting because we're horrendously bad at dieting and overcoming addiction. People commonly use the word "procrastination" to describe what they do on the Internet. It seems to me too mild to describe what's happening as merely not-doing-work. We don't call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working. - pg http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html