Comments on: Focus on Multitasking… http://gigaom.com/collaboration/focus-on-multitasking/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:11:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Web Worker Daily » Archive In Defense of Multitasking « http://gigaom.com/collaboration/focus-on-multitasking/#comment-56958 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:00:08 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/03/26/focus-on-multitasking/#comment-56958 [...] to your commute. The study itself isn’t all that convincing, but it resonates with other research we’ve covered in the past, as well as conventional wisdom going back decades. You can’t do software development for [...]

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Aww… I just found this blog too! Well best of luck with the projects.I’m thinking about doing the same thing very soon.

]]> By: Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Your Eyes Want You to Multitask. Resist! « http://gigaom.com/collaboration/focus-on-multitasking/#comment-56956 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:01:17 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/03/26/focus-on-multitasking/#comment-56956 [...] Your Eyes Want You to Multitask. Resist! Suw Charman recently posted an article on Corante where she begins: “Deep down, we all know it. Multitasking is bad for productivity.” We know that, too. [...]

]]> By: Kolz Blog » Blog Archive » Does multitasking make you more productive? http://gigaom.com/collaboration/focus-on-multitasking/#comment-56955 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:16:36 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/03/26/focus-on-multitasking/#comment-56955 [...] Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don’t Read This in Traffic [New York Times via Web Worker Daily [...]

]]> By:   Does multitasking make you more productive? by GM.com http://gigaom.com/collaboration/focus-on-multitasking/#comment-56954 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:23:11 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/03/26/focus-on-multitasking/#comment-56954 [...] Boswell Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don’t Read This in Traffic [New York Times via Web Worker Daily [...]

]]> By: Will http://gigaom.com/collaboration/focus-on-multitasking/#comment-56953 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:37:50 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/03/26/focus-on-multitasking/#comment-56953 There is no training course I’ve seen to learn how to multitask & the secrets of doing it well. Most of the time people tell you, “Just go do it.”

The best (non-strict) multitasking I was ever shown was to start longer processes that you could run in the background first & then run shorter ones while that one goes. -That and ferocious short-term-memory notation system is crucial to mt.

Test the busiest baristas at Starbucks, career bartenders who work at busy clubs, professional pianists, and professional drummers and you’ll get some very different results from the NYT on humans’ ability to multitask.

I say: up to a point it can be a learned skill and we can be trained for it. -What the NYT is measuring is that people suck at something they’re relatively new and untrained at, that’s all.

btw, I love your site wwd!

]]> By: Amie Gillingham http://gigaom.com/collaboration/focus-on-multitasking/#comment-56952 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:23:42 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/03/26/focus-on-multitasking/#comment-56952 I seem to tweet very differently than others; my friends are viewed purely via rss, and I only pop in when bored, curious, or have something I’d like to say to the listening crowds. I would guess this is roughly 4-10 times a day, tops.

If only I could be so good with email, which I am checking constantly for notices of new memberships, tech requests, answers to questions I have asked, etc. I very much have a slot-machine relationship with email and have had this problem for as long as I have had an email account, with the only difference being that I get a lot more mail now than I did roughly twenty years ago! (ouch, I’m getting old!)

I also think it’s interesting to note the number of projects one can successfull manage at once, and I think it explains a lot to me why I see myself dropping the ball more often than I’d like; I really am trying to do too much at once.

Thanks for the article!

]]> By: soupornuts http://gigaom.com/collaboration/focus-on-multitasking/#comment-56951 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:44:00 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/03/26/focus-on-multitasking/#comment-56951 a timely article. thanks for the reminder that our attention can only be pulled into so many directions before it starts to disintegrate.

]]> By: Serge Lescouarnec http://gigaom.com/collaboration/focus-on-multitasking/#comment-56950 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:20:36 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/03/26/focus-on-multitasking/#comment-56950 Let me confess, I do not use ‘Twitter’ even though it seems I was in the middle of it (at South by Southwest) when the twittering started taking off.

I personally like moments of silence and do not enjoy constant disruptions.

I do write things down to prevent brain clutter and not forget them.

As for doing only stuff that produces strong revenue, you cannot always tell from the outset.
Patience also creates results.

Take care

Serge
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