Monday 21 January 2019

Why switching attention from one thing to another wrecks your productivity

a post by Mark Frauenfelder for the Boing Boing blog



"Every time you switch your attention from one target to another and then back again, there’s a cost," Cal Newport said in a New York Times interview. "This switching creates an effect that psychologists call attention residue, which can reduce your cognitive capacity for a non-trivial amount of time before it clears." Newport has a new book that explores this and related ideas, called Digital Minimalism.

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