philosophy
January 2025 – Work is Changing, Leadership is Shifting, Attention is Waning, and AI is Rising
Issue 71
multitasking
Ling- English
Continuous partial attention: living on high alert... all the time
When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We’re often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing. (...) To pay continuous partial attention is to pay partial attention — CONTINUOUSLY. It is motivated by a desire to be
EME
The myth of multitasking
One study (...) found that workers took an average of twenty-five minutes to recover from interruptions such as phone calls or answering e-mail and return to their original task. Estimated cost to the U.S. economy from loss of productivity: $650 billion annually. [W]e are really talking about