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In the tech community, we talk a lot about not interrupting programmers (or other knowledge workers) because of the cost of so-called "context-switching." I thi
by thisisbrians 7y ago
In the tech community, we talk a lot about not interrupting programmers (or other knowledge workers) because of the cost of so-called "context-switching." I think this post raises the very interesting point that, much of the time, the sources of these interruptions are not external, but internal. Stop interrupting yourself! You're a knowledge worker! His advice to cultivate systems that afford one focus and prevent context-switching is salient.
- perl4ever 7y agoIt's a cliche that IT as an industry is hostile to women, and it's also a cliche that women are good at multitasking. How do we know that people's opinions on the difficulty of multitasking are representative and not biased? I'm not even speculating on whether gender differences might be innate or trained.