Disturbance create context switch
The Science of Time Management Flow is the absence of context
- Task Switching or Human Context Switching Context switching can take 40% of employee productivity time Human brain are syncronous, on and off, not simultaneous
- How to manage your time more effectively (according to machines) - Brian Christian
- All the time you spend to prioritize your work are the time you are not spend doing it
- Quadratic time algorithm, with inbox that twice as full, mean you doing 4 times the work
- Giving up doing thing in the perfect order maybe the key to getting them done
- Productivity vs Responsiveness
- Getting serious work done = minimizing context switching - Being responsive = reacting anytime something comes up
Solution
- The obvious one — Minimize interuptions
- The least obvious one — group them (tasks) — Interrupt Coalescing, a.k.a Batching
- If no such thing that require a response more urgently than once an hour, say, than that is exactly how often you should check them. No more.
- Rather than dealing things as they comes up, the system group interaction together, based on how long they can afford to wait.
- Deffering interruptions lets a system check everything at once, then quickly re-enter a lower-power state
Summary
- Spend less time prioritizing and more time doing
- Minimize interruptions
- Batching / Intterupt coalescing — group interruptions by how long you can afford to NOT do them and do them in that amount of time