Distractions

It's easy to get distracted from the task at hand. And there are indeed some matters which are more important than programming computers, so it's not really appropriate to call all of them 'distractions', but given that I don't have a better word for it, I'll just stick with it. If we understand that our lives should be organized by priorities, and these priorities are roughly what Abraham Maslow covered as he developed a hierarchy of needs. I believe doing computer science has much to do with actualizing our potential as human beings, but it is fairly high on the pyramid. Those things which are more fundamental have to be addressed first, so I think we should do that, getting them out of the way, so that when we do sit down to do some coding, we won't have anything else weighing on our minds and interfering with the creative process.