When a big merger broke down in years past, as they often did, the last thing corporate managers wanted was costly, distracting, time-consuming, risky litigation.
While people in other positions may write well, they are expected to be productive in their principal role while writing consistently good copy, articles, etc., can be distracting, time-consuming, and burdensome for them thus, negatively affecting productivity not only in their principal role, but also in the secondary role as an ad hoc writer.
In fairness to Ulin, one could object that I'm not the book's intended audience, convinced as I already am of "why books matter in a distracted time".
His eyewitness account of the confusions, follies and vices of the 1920s is the most valuable part of these essays, and remains relevant, of course, to our own distracted time.But these same themes, which are handled in a pointed, urbane and literary way in the first volume, become dangerously solemn in the second, as Huxley begins to take them (and himself) more seriously.
RescueTime Introductions downplays the importance of things like efficiency scores, downtime, distracted time, and so on, although Fioca did say that patterns in these areas can sometimes indicate that a person is bored in their current job and is looking for a new challenge.
One hour of focused time is equal to about 4 hours of distracted time.
Born and brought up in these desolate, distracted times, he has been endowed by them with an unstable and hypersensitive nervous system and suffers greatly under life's disharmonies.
So he came up with some recipes kids will eat and distracted, time-pressed cooks can make: cauliflower mac and cheese, sloppy Joe sliders, tomato soup with grilled ham and cheese.
