distracted

"If you're spending your free time not working, you're distracted!

He's allowing himself to become distracted from achieving what he wants at achieve.

Not a lot of people can get through long spells without feedback, and the skill of "making your own feedback" seems to be losing ground in our distracted culture.

My guess would be driving around with a relatively short-range jammer actually increases the odds of being hit by a distracted driver.

Problem solved right?Lesson #3: If at all possible, avoid having to resolve problems when exhausted/distracted.

Probably if I had known a single other kid/girl that liked computers like I did, I might have continued on that path and not been distracted for about 10 years.

People, including elected officials and their constituents, are traveling and distracted.

Similarly, if I am a good employee and too distracted by working, I may never realize that the going salary for a company is now X times what I make.

The problem is, its less qualified and their intentions aren't easily converted to caring about our product, they're distracted by some other impulse.

I absolutely, positively would not do better technical work, since I'd be constantly distracted by non-technical tasks.

* Initiate or sustain joint efforts with people on other projects, so they don't stagnate every time developers get distracted by other commitments.

Talk about complicating a simple problem!Again, apologies for the rant but I couldn't even concentrate on what the blog post was saying because I was so distracted by this garbage.

* Managers have free rein to fuck over an employee in Perf if they believe him to be "distracted" or at risk of future distraction by 20% time, even if that employee's performance is otherwise strong.

I'm a native French speaker and speak to anglophones trying to improve their french everyday and the overwhelming majority gets distracted if they don't get the noun genders right, pick the right verb tenses and all sorts of things like that.

Rather than people driving near you being distracted by conversations on their phones, they're going to be even more distracted because their call just got dropped, prompting them to look at the display waiting for the bars to come back so they can re-dial.

I think many of you in the Hacker News crowd will recognize this problem that I'm yet to find a solution to myself: mkdir [blinking cursor] Then 30 minutes passes and you didn't end up making that thing anyway since you got distracted while thinking up a name for it.