I am addicted to multitasking. I am convinced it will be my downfall. I always try to accomplish too much in too short a period of time. Quality suffers. My sanity suffers.
We often brag about the benefits of multitasking. Whether it’s talking on the phone while we are in the car or answering email while […]
Newsweek had a great article last week that was questioning the merit of letting President Obama keep his Blackberry:
“So while legions of BlackBerry fans cheer Obama’s success in keeping his, insisting it makes users more productive and connected, experts in cognitive psychology and in human-machine interactions who study pop-ups, e-mail alerts, calendar reminders and […]
I have seen people using there cell phones and PDAs in the strangest places. I have seen them used at the urinals in rest rooms, on bicycles, treadmills, etc, etc, etc. We do this because we are so programmed to multitask that we can’t “waste a minute” by just doing one thing at a time.
But now […]
I always talk about striving for minimal achievement. Trying to focus on doing one thing at time. This is becoming nearly impossible in a culture that rewards “multitasking”. When we do more than one thing at a time, we not only lose the quality of the work, but also the enjoyment. Moving at high speeds […]