Deep work is not only about spending maximum time on what you really want to do. It more on how you get the maximum efficiency out of it.
And oh yes, "deliberate distraction" is highly recommended while doing deep work. So there is nothing wrong posting comments related to deep work on HN. :)
Just putting this here so that the Dropbox employees who inevitably read this can be aware: I've used dropbox for 5+ years, and as a paid user at that. Today I deleted dropbox because of the recent shenanigans and bad press as well as because there is a lot of high quality competition in the synced file storage space that I can turn to.
My experience is that file sync is all about edge cases, and there are so, so many. I believe Dropbox is the only one that has solved most of them (a function of time, energy, and large user base).
A colleague just had google drive not properly syncing for 2 weeks, and all of the sudden it started working except it overwrote a very active Sketch file with the two week old copy (and no duplicate "conflict" copy made as Dropbox does). Google around and you'll find many such stories across all services.
I would like to present a counter to this. I recently became a paid Dropbox user just because of the convenience I have experienced through the Finder integration.
Another thing the OP hasn't mentioned is which service he/she will move to. Dropbox is by far the best file sharing/storage product I have used. I don't think about sharing/storing files anymore - all the tools and convenience Dropbox offers (and Finder integration is a big part of that) take care of this itself!
Not parent, but Google Drive has always been great for me. It has much improved from the clunky offering that was the release version. the only trouble I've had was corporate proxies, but God knows what hackery makes Dropbox work in this case.
Now you have the ability to selected nested folders to sync, it does everything I need, and the storage is shared with Gmail, Photos, etc.
Unfortunately, Google Drive has quite serious issues for heavy users of file synchronization (the last time I tried it):
* It does not do chunked syncing. Change one bit of a 5GB file, it gets resynced completely.
* You cannot get a list of shared files/folders. You basically need to check sharing per file/folder by hand or write/use a Google Apps script (which is very slow).
* It does not support LAN sync. When I share large directories with colleagues on Dropbox, sync is very quick, because the transfers are just over the local network.
* The last time I tried, the Google Drive client regularly had problems syncing some files when syncing a very large set of files.
I can say why I would use it, I don't know that I can answer why you might. I would this because I love D3. I also don't have time to write a lot of it. D3 can be expensive for basic charts to the point where you'd be foolish to use it. D3 is great for complex data visualizations where the expense is an investment that will pay you back in higher performance and higher flexibility.
For me, I can use plottable and then make the charts my own with raw D3.
And Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Ev Williams, Marc Benioff, Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer, Arianna Huffington, etc... get Millions of dollars per day. Within any one of those weeks, there is an hour or two where they're not doing much more labor than a Scott Disick or Nikki Minaj in a club.
The difference is that the people in the article are being paid just to turn up. The business people you mentioned are in charge of large organizations that are making them money while they aren't around.
