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I've organized my life in such a way that I deliberately avoid multi-tasking since I read years ago that it doesn't work, and have proven to myself over the yea
by kosasbest 5y ago
I've organized my life in such a way that I deliberately avoid multi-tasking since I read years ago that it doesn't work, and have proven to myself over the years that it doesn't work. YMMV. One thing I have done is introduce friction into my workflow. So I have a dedicated hard-drive that I boot into that is strictly for coding. Another is strictly for news & social media. This way if I'm coding, I am less likely to slide into Hackernews/Reddit/Twitter/Whatever. Friction is good and more people need to leverage it.
- ghgr 5y ago> So I have a dedicated hard-drive that I boot into that is strictly for coding. Another is strictly for news & social media. This way if I'm coding, I am less likely to slide into Hackernews/Reddit/Twitter/Whatever. Friction is good and more people need to leverage it. But then you're also less likely to get back to work once you are in social media, aren't you?
- sharkjacobs 5y agoI don't think that would be a problem unless you often find yourself absent mindedly almost accidentally starting to work when you mean to be taking a break.
- jscud 5y agoI imagine the point is to not slide over to social media until the coding is done, at least for a predetermined segment of time. Is that the idea?
- Blikkentrekker 5y agoI'm fairly certain you do multitask in someone's definition thereof; you have simply defined what you are doing as “one task” and someone else might disagree and this alone makes me suspect of all literature on this matter.