About Me

My name is Jonathan C. Hall. I am a sometime designer, a one-time inventor, and an incurable generalist. I have been a beat reporter, a researcher for the smartest woman in the world, a technology consultant to the likes of Rob Jarvik and King Abdullah II of Jordan, and a student of science and the humanities. I’ve spent an obscene portion of my adult life drawing smiley faces. I hold a BA summa cum laude from Harvard University, where I studied languages and religion, and am currently pursuing a PhD in Communications from Columbia University. I’m easily distracted by problems and opportunities outside my limited expertise. “Creative Distraction” was born when I started writing about it.

creative distraction (krē-’ā-tĭv dĭ-’străk-shən) the incessant process by which new ideas, projects, problems and opportunities are generated and attended to in the mind, often at the expense of older ones