Unnecessary Context Switches & the Myth of Multitasking

Thanks to Tony C. who sent this suggestion as follow-up to the recent Social Media post:

Thought you might be interested in this article and the book that it references - “The Myth of Multitasking”

[Disclosure: I haven’t read the book and so this is not an endorsement.]

This book deals with “Human Multitasking” - not operating systems. There is a common theme to the discussions of this book and to other content about human-multitasking. Your “cognitive attention” can be directed to any particular task but sharing attention across multiple tasks will reduce performance.

Read on…