the.com/context switch
the mental tax you pay every time you pretend to multitask.
means the process of pausing one task to load another into your brain or CPU, and it always costs more than you think.
from borrowed from computer science, where an operating system swaps one running process for another by saving and reloading register states — humans just do it worse and complain more.
cpu costmicroseconds, but constant under heavy multitasking
human costup to 23 minutes to refocus, studies suggest
open tabseach one is a queued context switch
slack pingsthe modern equivalent of an interrupt request