We learned what multitasking costs from folding clothes in front of the television, where it costs almost nothing. Then we carried that feeling to work that costs more than double. The number isn’t fixed. It scales with how hard the thing is.
What it says
Laundry taught us the wrong lesson about multitasking.
We fold, the show plays, and nothing gets lost.
So the same trick goes to the desk.
But a quarter more on the easy thing becomes over double on the hard one.
The whole penalty lives in the complicated work.
Though that came from short lab tasks, not a whole morning’s work.
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