Your Fidget Spinner Is (Maybe) Making You Smarter

Published: May 17, 2017, 8:12 a.m.

Skip Suva is a fidgeter. When he worked at paper-intensive administrative jobs, he\u2019d doodle incessantly; when he started a coding career last year, he took up fiddling with an SD-card reader that made pleasant snick noises. \u201cPopping the SD card out and clicking it back in,\u201d he laughs. His fidgeting can seem like a crazy tic, Suva admits. But it helps him focus.