1/ In W.E.I.R.D psychology, multitasking is bad
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2/ This is multitasking defined by tasks like "click only when the arrow is red and and pointing the opposite direction from other arrows"
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3/ In popular wisdom from modern sages like Charlie Munger too, multitasking is bad farnamstreetblog.com/2016/03/multit
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4/ I'm convinced both academic and pop-wisdom takes on multitasking are deeply wrong. We're multi-tasking beings. Unit asking is unnatural
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5/ Why? Nature isn't like movie villains, sending mooks (disposable minions) at you 1 at a time in order. Reality comes at you multithreaded
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6/ Survival isn't a unitask, it is a multitask. This isn't just me bs'ing. There is research on 'mind wandering'
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totally depends on task types. "creative" tasks vs "management" tasks are qualitatively different. As per usual: a generalization fail
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see points 11-13. You're being too narrow. There is no god-given distinction between "management" and "creative" tasks
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