{"id":5968,"date":"2012-04-12T18:15:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T02:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtdtimes.com\/2012\/04\/12\/"},"modified":"2014-02-03T14:30:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T22:30:04","slug":"who-distracts-you-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/2012\/04\/who-distracts-you-the-most\/","title":{"rendered":"Who distracts you the most?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who distracts you the most? You might say it&#8217;s your boss, your coworkers, or your kids.\u00a0 But maybe it&#8217;s the software you&#8217;re using.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The biggest impediment to concentration is your computer&#8217;s ecosystem of interruption technologies: IM, email alerts, RSS alerts, Skype rings, etc. Anything that requires you to wait for a response, even subconsciously, occupies your attention. Anything that leaps up on your screen to announce something new, occupies your attention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s from &#8220;<a title=\"Writing in the Age of Distraction\" href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/Features\/2009\/01\/cory-doctorow-writing-in-age-of.html\" target=\"_blank\">Writing in the Age of Distraction<\/a>,&#8221; posted three three years ago, and still applicable in 2012.\u00a0 Even if you downloaded your\u00a0iPhone and Android productivity apps today, they will waste your time tomorrow unless you\u00a0take control of them now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gtdtimes.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2012\/04\/alarm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5972\" title=\"alarm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gtdtimes.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2012\/04\/alarm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>Has your software improved your productivity as the world has become more distracting? Or is your software programmed to grab your attention in alarming ways that make your time-management job harder?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Is your software programmed to grab your attention in ways that make your time-management job harder?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[22,745,29,69,46,739,114,742,122],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.4 (Yoast SEO v22.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Who distracts you the most?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Is your software programmed to grab your attention in ways 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