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Switching costs a rebuild, not a slice
We leave a thought half-finished at ten, and come back to it at noon. The thread is gone, so we build the same conclusion...
Focus has an entry price, and interruptions charge it twice
The minutes an interruption takes are not what it costs. What it costs is the climb back into focus, charged again from the bottom....
Switching cost scales with complexity
We learned what multitasking costs from folding clothes in front of the television, where it costs almost nothing. Then we carried that feeling to...
Flow removes the policing, not the work
The work is not what drains us. Holding ourselves to the work is. And the honest catch: a long good session still leaves us...
Self-consciousness as leftover attention
The self we can't stop monitoring is attention with nothing else to hold. Easy work leaves the spare room. Hard work spends it, though...
Deep Work: the ritual starts before the mood does
The ritual is the trick: same seat, same length, decided before the mood gets a vote. The transition into concentration stops costing anything. The...
Sequencing beats effort: the Milan caseload gap
Two people, the same pile, the same hours, and one finishes in half the time. The cases were handed out at random, so nobody...