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Tim Harford: Slow-Motion Multitasking

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Slow Motion Multitasking: A Good Thing or Not?

We are currently arguing over whether multitasking is a good thing or not. I think we're missing something important. Every single significant creative person has a lot of different stuff on the go at the same time. Cal Newport talks about this in deep work. You can, you can call it slow motion multitasking. Soren Kierkegaard called it crop rotation. Sometimes people call it networks of enterprises. That's, that's been coined by creativity researcher Sarah Gruber.

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