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It has administrators in it and many, many other things.

They fill it with tables, or desks, chairs, computer equipment, software, Internet access, maybe a fridge, maybe a few other things, and they expect their employees, or their volunteers, to come to that location every day to do great work.

I've been asking people this question for about 10 years: "Where do you go when you really need to get something done?" I'll hear things like, the porch, the deck, the kitchen.

I'll hear things like an extra room in the house, the basement, the coffee shop, the library.

And this whole phenomenon of having short bursts of time to get things done reminds me of another thing that doesn't work when you're interrupted, and that is sleep.

It turns out those aren't the things that are distracting, Because those are voluntary distractions.

Now, managers and bosses will often have you think that the real distractions at work are things like Facebook and Twitter and YouTube and other websites, and in fact, they'll go so far as to actually ban these sites at work.

Today's Facebook and Twitter and YouTube, these things are just modern-day smoke breaks.

And this is why things don't get done at work, it's because of the M&Ms.

So these are the things that you don't find elsewhere, but you do find at the office.

And meetings are just toxic, terrible, poisonous things during the day at work.

Meetings are places to go to talk about things you're supposed to be doing later.

And so we tend to fill these times up when things should go really quickly.

These things don't exist outside of the office.

Now some people might say email is really distracting, I.M. is really distracting, and these other things are really distracting, but they're distracting at a time of your own choice and your own choosing.

You can put these things away, and then you can be interrupted on your own schedule, at your own time, when you're available, when you're ready to go again.

There are very, very few things that are that urgent, that need to happen, that need to be answered right this second.

So if you're a manager, start encouraging people to use more things like I.M. and email and other things that someone can put away and then get back to you on their own schedule.

All these discussions and decisions you thought you had to make at this one time at 9 a.m. on Monday, just forget about them, and things will be fine.

You'll find out all these things you thought you had to do, you don't actually have to do.

Well, I feature all those warped things because repetition creates pattern, and it's from a Dionysian perspective.

How can I change these things?

With all these things I've been learning about the food system, it seems to me that we can either pay the farmer, or we can pay the hospital.

That's why in negotiations, often, when things get tough, people go for walks in the woods.

After a TED Talk, why not a TED Walk? (Laughter) So let me just leave you with three things.

And all of these things have to happen symbiotically.

But there's tomatoes that end up in a soup, and as long as they meet the requirements of the food agency, there can be all kinds of things in there, no problem.

And I'm working very hard with my colleague, Arnold van Huis, in telling people what insects are, what magnificent things they are, what magnificent jobs they do in nature.

And there are simple things like, for instance, we have a small laser in the sniffer hole where the animal has to stick for five seconds.

So to make sure that I was getting the most out of the things I was finding, I bought a sewing machine so I could tailor the 90's-style garments that I was finding, to fit a more contemporary aesthetic.

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