I've written about the interruption driven workday once before, yet doing so had no effect whatsoever on the amount of distractions and sidebars that occur during my (and I'm sure) everyone else's days. Therefore, I will try again.

I saw this article from the NYT on my new favorite constructive distraction lifehacker then I saw it again at 43 Folders.

There are enough people talking about this that it's easily seen that the non-productive productivity of the day is effecting everyone. This week however, I have found myself actually delivering by focusing on getting one thing done well each day (regardless of my intention to accomplish 3 or 4). Of course there are still the smaller unavoidable tasks like responding to emails and occasionally answering the phone. But I am finding that allocating your time in large chunks is even more imperitive when there seem to be a million things to do.