I remember reading once that Steve Jobs only assigned his engineers one project at a time to optimize focus. A potentially apocryphal story because I later read

I remember reading once that Steve Jobs only assigned his engineers one project at a time to optimize focus. A potentially apocryphal story because I later read his biography and didn't find any mention of this. I personally have a tendency to cherry-pick easy tasks and procrastinate on the gnarlier ones. Single-threading projects would force me to confront those difficult tasks and "eat the frog".