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Buzzed Multitasking is Drunk Multitasking

I’ve said it before (and by said, I mean written), and I’ll say it again: Multitasking Doesn’t Work. In Brain Rules, John Medina points out that the brain cannot multitask: We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously. I like the specificity of that sentence and how it gets the point across in so [...]

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Multitasking Really Works!

April Fools, fools! Guess what? Your computer doesn’t multitask. Yup. That’s right. All those applications in the Start Bar System Tray? They are not all running at the same time. Your computer just makes you think they are.* What’s the point? Don’t multitask. Yes, your brain can do about a million times more calculations than [...]

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