Multitasking drains the brain
Richard Cytowic: “The high energy cost of cortical activity is why selective attention — focusing on one thing at a time — exists in the first place and why multitasking is an unaffordable fool’s errand.”
Multitasking
Writing a letter while boiling potatoes for potato salad.
Eleanor Roosevelt on attention
No multitasker, she.
New directions in multitasking
Smoking, texting, skateboarding.
"The Autumn of the Multitaskers"
Excerpt from an essay by Walter Kirn
Multitaskers, take note
Clever road sign from England
More evidence that multitasking doesn't work
The New York Times brings us more evidence that multitasking doesn't work well: "Multitasking is going to slow you down, increasing the cha...
Multitasking: "not paying attention"
From Jared Sandberg's column "Cubicle Culture": Multitasking, a term cribbed from computers, is an information age creed that, while almost ...