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There are several books we recommend for a better understanding of current trends in productivity.

We will mention which elements we have taken from each of these books, although the main idea of making you as aware as possible of your interruptions is ours.

Get things done –GTD- (David Allen)

To our knowledge there's no specific advice in the GTD book about how to deal with interruptions (other than trying to minimize them).

Do it tomorrow (Mark Forster)

There are two key concepts from this book:

(1) The importance of forced rest time (scheduled rest). The mind likes completion, so if you interrupt a task halfway when rest time comes, you'll be more willing to come back to it after the rest if over.

(2) Current Initiative: Mark Forster recommends to have a project that gets special treatment. It can be a new idea we need to launch (e.g., build a new website). He recommends to do it first thing in the morning.

How to write a lot (Paul Silvia)

Paul Silvia’s advice is mainly for academics who need to write a lot of papers/books. He advices to count the number of words you wrote for your current initiative (goal of the day is to write at least two hours). Coincidentally, Paul Silvia himself also writes first thing in the morning.

Even though we integrate all these systems, the basic axiom her is radically different. We work from the attention economy paradigm. According to Wikipedia, attention economy, or attention economics, as it was first known, is "an approach to the management of information that treats human attention as a scarce commodity, and applies economic theory to solve various information management problems."