Human Multi-Tasking a Myth?
Firstly ArrrrrrrrrrrrrGH having ninemsn.com.au as the default homepage of Internet Exploiter 8 might become very scary. The first few features were from The Australian Women's Weekly and Cosmopolitan I guess that is okay but hopefully not habit forming :)
One thing at a time
Pamela Allardice
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Multi-tasking is an easy habit to get hooked on, but — ironically — it means you end up doing less, not more.
"If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it," goes the saying. Being perpetually busy — a type A personality who can check e-mail, fold laundry, send a text message, and cook dinner, all at once — is a state that modern technology supports and that society encourages as something of a status symbol. In fact, the opposite may be true: multitasking causes the brain to make more mistakes.
According to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doing two or more things at once is a recipe for inefficiency; plus, the more you multitask, the worse you are at it.
Robert Crane has coved this on his blog in the past Here and Here
But I Have a new spin and while no actual evidence here is was happens with me…
If I’m trying to work on a computer I MUST have the TV on or I will Surf the Internet for crap (which Explains the things in my head and on this blog) but if the TV is on then I seem to have much more focus.
So excuse me while I turn back on the Scream Awards so I can spec a server to take to a Virtualization Day next week held by SMBiT Professionals Sydney.
Current front runner is an ML300 G6 both sockets filled and as much memory as I can afford right now, then fill to a fully spec’d 144GB capacity later this will be our DEV box for a while. Now two ML 330’s would be great for clustering but that is just greedy and dreaming right now.