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Idk, I definitely have days where I'm highly productive for more than 4 hours, but I also have days where I work even longer and accomplish nothing. I don't think a number like that is particularly useful for anything, and only good for micromanagers who need to feel like they can hyper-optimize every single thing.
Interruptions definitely fuck me up though, without fail. Maybe it's the type of work I tend to do, which generally requires me to keep a lot of context in mind. An analogy I've heard that I think works well: It's like fixing a car, but you have to disassemble the entire dashboard and steering column just to reach the part you need to work on. As you're doing that, someone asks you pick them up so now you have to reassemble everything to be able to drive the car to pick them up, and then disassemble it all again just to get back to work.