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Multitasking and productivity
Mar 26, 2007
The NYT suggests that multitasking isn't productive. Check out the solution... from Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don't Read This in Traffic:
Several research reports, both recently published and not yet published, provide evidence of the limits of multitasking. The findings, according to neuroscientists, psychologists and management professors, suggest that many people would be wise to curb their multitasking behavior when working in an office, studying or driving a car.These experts have some basic advice. ...
In short, the answer appears to lie in managing the technology, instead of merely yielding to its incessant tug [emphasis mine -mh].
A fuller description of "managing the technology" can be found in my new book Bit Literacy - also at Amazon.
(thanks, bb)
