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Multitasking is what prevents us from working on a problem uninterrupted. If you are not allowed to concentrate on a problem because another task has higher pri
by onemoresoop 7y ago
Multitasking is what prevents us from working on a problem uninterrupted. If you are not allowed to concentrate on a problem because another task has higher priority you are doing multitasking. You said it yourself, multitasking is jumping from one task to another, and I may add the word unfinished before task.
- GrumpyNl 7y agoIts all about focus and dedication. That's hard to spread over several subjects.
- cosmodisk 7y agoAbsolutely agree. Yesterday my colleague and I had to work on something with very hard deadline.I emailed my team explaining that we won't be available for calls,emails or anything else. In just 4-5 hours I've done more than it would otherwise have taken me a few days to complete.There were lots of missed calls though:)
- ogn3rd 7y agowouldn't it be easier to describe multi-tasking as context switching?
- bpyne 7y agoWhat we call multitasking is usually task switching, according to an article I read after a similar discussion on HN. The dividing line has something to do with only one task at a time being able to use an area of the brain. As long as one of the tasks doesn't use that area, you can multitask. Otherwise, you can physically only task switch.