Productive distractions

In favour of distractions, what I've felt right for many years in order to think or do things differently. So attention economy and scanning widely are not necessarily dichomotous, I suspect there are potentially productive disctractions but aided by a certain attention economy (to be able to scan quickly, move on etc). 

http://nymag.com/news/features/56793/ *discovered this link via my colleague and friend Thomas Hoholm, BI.