Cats and productivity

Scott Adams:

As soon as I pick up a drawing implement, [my cat] systematically goes around my office chewing and scratching one item after another until she finds something that will make me stop work and pet her. I don’t want her to learn what will bother me most, so I try to trick her. I act all worked up when she eats a yellow sticky note while remaining nonchalant as she goes all mongoose on my monitor cable. We’ve been doing this routine for years, which is why my office looks like a Hezbollah safe house and all of my best ideas are inside my cat.