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.”

The New York Times brings us more evidence that multitasking doesn't work well: "Multitasking is going to slow you down, increasing the cha...

From Jared Sandberg's column "Cubicle Culture": Multitasking, a term cribbed from computers, is an information age creed that, while almost ...