There's no such thing as multitasking for cognitive work. There's only fast, expensive switching.
Each switch has a reorientation cost.
The cost is invisible, so we underrate it.
Batching similar work is the cheapest productivity win there is.
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The myth of multitasking, one more time
Amara Okafor
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