Comments on: Connected Mode: Multitasking for Productivity

By: Etre multitâche, est-ce bien ou mal ? | MotsAndCo

Etre multitâche, est-ce bien ou mal ? | MotsAndCo — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:13:17 +0000

[...] récemment, le site mettait en ligne un papier intitulé “Connected Mode: Multitasking for Productivity“, se demandant si travailler sur plusieurs projets à la fois était un bien ou un mal et [...]

By: Shanti Braford

Shanti Braford — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:49:34 +0000

Working with excessive multitaskers drives me crazy.

You’re chatting with them, over the phone say, and every 30 seconds there is like this 10 second pause.

What are they doing? Chatting with someone on IM about (probably) something equally as pressing.

You’re just wasting other people’s time (and possibly your own) when you try to do too many things at once.

Oh and if you’re a coder (like myself), forget about it. You will have about 0-1% “flow” time if you are constantly on IM / etc. during the day.

By: Anne Truitt Zelenka » Three Trends Supporting Productive Multitasking

Anne Truitt Zelenka » Three Trends Supporting Productive Multitasking — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:47:22 +0000

[...] Are we overloaded and overconnected, checking email like rats pushing a cocaine lever, too distracted and unfocused to get anything done? Maybe. Or maybe there’s a way to be productive other than single-tasking and firewalled attention: connected mode productivity. [...]

By: Three important events « AccMan

Three important events « AccMan — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:48:57 +0000

[...] an aside, I learned from Anne Zelenka about Connected Mode: Multitasking for Productivity – via her Tweets. It’s an extremely interesting read and one I’ll be exploring a wee bit [...]

By: Anne Zelenka

Anne Zelenka — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:11:09 +0000

Dennis: (I almost said @dahowlett, getting confused on channels here!) great point, and I’m glad you reminded me that the fundamental argument against human ability to multitask (i.e. “we can really only do ONE thing at a time!”) is, in practice, wrong. Effectively, we can multitask — as I am doing right now, thinking about my chapter on email while looking at Twitters and popping over to WWD to respond to your comment. Drinking a cup of coffee too!

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:04:35 +0000

I think people get confused on this one. We CAN do more than one thing at a time. As I read this piece I was eating a sandwich and moving the mouse plus thinking about a response. That’s 4 things pretty much in parallel. What about those who operate in financial trading rooms – following multiple screens, split screens, talking on the phone, doing trades. A lot of activity at the same time and, I’d argue both parallel – in fact massively so – and multi-tasking. The question is: am I contributing to higher order group productivity? If you’re reading this then presumably the answer is yes but it doesn’t have to be real-time. It has to be right time. I’d further argue that’s why we have a Long Tail of attention.

By: Is Multitasking Truly Evil? « Caffeinated Gonzo!

Is Multitasking Truly Evil? « Caffeinated Gonzo! — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:26:06 +0000

[...] the evil many people are beginning to believe it to be? No… according to this post on Web Worker Daily. Describing multitasking as still doing one thing at a time, but switching back and forth between [...]

By: Someone please make the bubble die « Metacircular thoughts

Someone please make the bubble die « Metacircular thoughts — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:39:13 +0000

[...] argument that people aren’t effective at multitasking? Disregard that and embrace “connected mode“: do stupid shit faster! That’s right. All the old facts (who has time for facts [...]

By: GigaOM What’s on GigaNET «

GigaOM What’s on GigaNET « — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:43:21 +0000

[...] by Om Malik Monday, June 25, 2007 at 2:39 PM PT | No comments Connected Mode: Multitasking for Productivity: Conventional wisdom from old-style journalists and not a few bloggers says that multitasking is [...]

By: Connected productivity « Pen.sieve.ity

Connected productivity « Pen.sieve.ity — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:11:47 +0000

[...] June 25, 2007 Posted by lilyhill in Uncategorized. trackback Good article on Web Worker Daily about multitasking – good, or [...]