I think "If you can distract me, I'm creative." would be a better title.
Being easily distracted means you have a harder time to get stuff done. To bring it back to another commenter it also means you have a harder time to achieve and maintain Flow.
So in a typical pop-scientist way the writer of the article got the headline completely wrong. You can't make me more creative by distracting me. If I'm creative I'll have a harder time to maintain focus.
Or even start playing with eg Android SDK/NDK which runs their emulator on qemu. Pretty much all mobile phones run on ARM though so pick which ever you are most comfortable with.
I wrote a comment on the site but might as well post a version of it here as well:
It's been a while since I read Use of Weapons, and when I did I had already read a few of the culture books before so I had some understanding of the universe.
The plot is "confusing" since it tells two stories interleaved between the chapters. One story goes from the chronological end of the story backwards, telling the story of Zakalwe's work with Culture. The other story tells the story of Zakalwe's origin. The two stories meet at the end of the book in the defining moment of the book.
Personally I prefer books (and stories) that are not obvious and require some work for the reader. But most of Bank's other Culture books are easier to follow, such as the first one Player of Games. These will also tell you more about why Culture acts the way it does and doesn't always take the "short cut" of nuking everything until it glows.
Besides Player of games I think Consider Phlebas and Excession are some of the really good ones. A lot of the other books are much slower paced and read more like dramas than "Syfy" space action.
Personally I find the universe of Culture to be one of the most interesting in SF literature. The books are also independent on each other and can be read in any order. Since characters don't really go on from one book to another you're never sure who'll die, which I find heightens the tension.
Many of the books also read like a bit of a puzzle. This may be frustrating for some readers, but for those who enjoy books like that it can be fun. (Personally I tend to find them a bit slow.)
I've long wished that there would come a movie or game set in the Culture universe. Since the stories are independent they could make one without "destroying" any of the characters or books which already exist.
I think it's a better idea to read one of the shorter books first (IIRC the Fountainhead is pretty short). Atlas Shrugged could be cut down to about half the size and make the point it's trying to make better (by virtue of being more concise).
Personally I find it fascinating that the characters in the book (and Ayn Rand) constantly reiterate that "decisions should be made on logic and rationality instead of emotions" but the entire book is driven by pathos instead of any logical argument.
All the "good guys and gals" and smart, beautiful and horny. All the bad guys are ugly and stupid. They constantly use tautologies ("A is A") as if it was a way to debate with logic (it's not). And it never provides any attempt to prove that the entire premise is true or even feasible. Say what you want about Karl Marx but he did at least attempt to make a rational argument.
All that said you may still enjoy the book. Personally I've read a lot other books which make the same, or similar, point but better. Animal Farm springs to mind (no, it's not about objectivism, but it is about how power corrupts people, or animals).
I'd say that his ideas on management are interesting and informed. But when he starts talking development or technology he quickly becomes uninformed and poorly researched.
The discussion they had a number of episodes ago regarding MVC "patterns" made it clear that they had no fucking clue what they were talking about. And when Wikipedia didn't give a fast answer they began guestimating instead.
The point is that those are metrics which the computer uses to classify the music. You can then find similar music which may not be obvious at first. (Just look at the video to see examples.)
They claim that they don't do any image processing. Personally I'm pretty convinced that it's fake. (And I'm guessing that the TC50 judges are at least skeptical as well.)
To clarify, I think the augmented reality bit is fake. (Where you point the camera at something to get information about it.) Getting information about which stores are in the area as well as adding comments to a location is neither new nor particularly hard.
Being easily distracted means you have a harder time to get stuff done. To bring it back to another commenter it also means you have a harder time to achieve and maintain Flow.
So in a typical pop-scientist way the writer of the article got the headline completely wrong. You can't make me more creative by distracting me. If I'm creative I'll have a harder time to maintain focus.