http://dague.net/2009/10/09/anyone-that-thinks-they-are-good-at-multitasking-are-bad-at-getting-anything-done/ Various rambling thoughts from my personal corner of the internet Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:18:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://dague.net/2009/10/09/anyone-that-thinks-they-are-good-at-multitasking-are-bad-at-getting-anything-done/comment-page-1/#comment-15216 Jay Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:39:05 +0000 http://dague.net/2009/10/09/anyone-that-thinks-they-are-good-at-multitasking-are-bad-at-getting-anything-done/#comment-15216 I, for one, am really glad to see something like this. I've always felt like I was a lesser nerd due to my inability to heroically multitask. I mean, I can get all ADD with the best of them, but for me to actually be really productive on something I have to focus exclusively on it, even if that means staring at a compile for 30 seconds instead of trying to make that time "useful" by doing something else more complicated than skipping a song in Pandora. I, for one, am really glad to see something like this. I’ve always felt like I was a lesser nerd due to my inability to heroically multitask. I mean, I can get all ADD with the best of them, but for me to actually be really productive on something I have to focus exclusively on it, even if that means staring at a compile for 30 seconds instead of trying to make that time “useful” by doing something else more complicated than skipping a song in Pandora.

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