{"id":472,"date":"2014-03-05T00:09:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T21:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/?p=472"},"modified":"2014-03-05T00:09:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T21:09:22","slug":"why-multitasking-is-bad-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/why-multitasking-is-bad-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Why multitasking is bad for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently reading &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Critical-Chain-Eliyahu-M-Goldratt\/dp\/0884271536\">Critical Chain<\/a>&#8216; by Eli Goldratt, which is a book on project management disguised as a business novel. It is interesting enough to warrant its own blog post later, but I couldn&#8217;t keep myself from citing it on this particular subject right away. I&#8217;m an opponent of multitasking (although I don&#8217;t always manage to practice what I preach), and here&#8217;s another reason why (images adapted from the book):<\/p>\n<p>Suppose you are working on three things A, B and C, and each takes 10 days (or hours, or minutes) to complete. Your lead time for each task is 10 days, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/10days.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-474 aligncenter\" alt=\"10days\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/10days.jpg\" width=\"679\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, what happens to the time you need to check these tasks off your to do list, if you interrupt each task when you&#8217;re half way through?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20days.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-473 aligncenter\" alt=\"20days\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20days.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It doubles!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So here you go, another good reason to stay focused, demand prioritization and stop multitasking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently reading &#8216;Critical Chain&#8216; by Eli Goldratt, which is a book on project management disguised as a business novel. It is interesting enough to warrant its own blog post later, but I couldn&#8217;t keep myself from citing it on this particular subject right away. I&#8217;m an opponent of multitasking (although I don&#8217;t always manage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[35,51,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}