Thanks to technology, we can work anytime and anywhere and with anyone. So why aren’t we superproducers? The short answer is that we have too many distractions. You know how Henry David Thoreau was able to write Walden? He lived in the woods. He didn’t have laundry to distract him. Or a phone. I joke, but it’s partly true. Because we have access to anything, anybody, anywhere, it’s harder for us to focus on the task at hand.
