#449 - Thatcher Wine - Multitasking Is Killing Your Productivity
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
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🗓️ 19 March 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Thatcher Wine is professional book curator, founder of Juniper Books and an author.
Multi-tasking will make you less effective, less productive, less happy and more prone to making errors in work and life. The question of why we're all so tempted to do it and how we can stop seems an obvious next step.
Expect to learn whether multi-tasking is just a modern phenomenon, how monotasking can result in more work being done at a higher quality, how technology has permanently changed the landscape for attention, the usefulness of walking between tasks, why tasks can get more difficult before they get easier again and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening people? Welcome back to the show! My guest today is Thatcher Wine. He's a |
| 0:06.4 | professional book curator, founder of Juniper Books and an author. Multitasking will make you |
| 0:12.7 | less effective, less productive, less happy, and more prone to making errors in work and life. |
| 0:19.3 | The question of why we're also tempted to do it then and how we can stop seems an obvious next step. |
| 0:25.6 | Expect to learn whether multitasking is just a modern phenomenon, how monotasking can result in |
| 0:31.0 | more work being done at a high quality. How technology has permanently changed the landscape for |
| 0:36.0 | attention, the usefulness of walking between tasks. Why tasks can get more difficult before they |
| 0:41.9 | get easier again and much more. This is yet another perennial human problem trying to get too much |
| 0:49.2 | stuff done and I agree with the fundamental thesis that focusing on one thing going an inch wide |
| 0:56.6 | and a mile deep on the thing which is right in front of you is not only more satisfying and |
| 1:01.2 | fulfilling but also more effective. So I'm sure that you don't need to be convinced of it |
| 1:06.8 | theoretically but there are some good practical solutions for how you can use monotasking more |
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