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Next, he should cut down his desk so that he can only fit one piece of paper on it. After all, it's better to focus on one thing at a time.
by massysett 10y ago
Next, he should cut down his desk so that he can only fit one piece of paper on it. After all, it's better to focus on one thing at a time.
- degenerate 10y agoAlso there's too many drawers. How can you find anything when there are so many storage bins to choose from? One giant laundry basket, or a bathtub, if you have lots of stuff, should do just fine...
- ungoliant 10y agoYou can definitely take it to an extreme. If you only read one word at a time, why show multiple words on the display? Why not a single character! But that's not the point. There's an optimal level of visual busy-ness. Doubling your screen real-estate looks cool, but is it actually better? For me it is not. I had a friend at work who had a four-monitor setup, and then somebody quit and he got ANOTHER thunderbolt monitor. Once he had all 5 set up, he got so agitated by the quantity of data coming in that he couldn't get anything done. I would bet that everybody has that threshold. So how much stress was he feeling with 4 monitors? Probably some... maybe not more than his baseline daily work-stress, but did he need to take on that extra stress?