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“Persons  who  wish  to  interfere  with  my  concentration”:  from  Neal  Stephenson’s
old  website,  in  a  page  titled  “My  Ongoing  Battle  with  Continuous  Partial
Attention,” 
archived 
in 
December 
2003:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031231203738/http://www.well.com/~neal/.

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“The  productivity  equation  is  a  non-linear  one”:  from  Neal  Stephenson’s  old
website, in a page titled “Why I Am a Bad Correspondent,” archived in December
2003:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031207060405/http://www.well.com/~neal/badcorre
spondent.html.
Stephenson, Neal. Anathem. New York: William Morrow, 2008.
For  more  on  the  connection  between  Anathem  and  the  tension  between  focus  and
distraction, see “Interview with Neal Stephenson,” published on GoodReads.com
in 
September 
2008:
http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/14.Neal_Stephenson.