topic: [[Thinking]] people: created: 2023-09-26 *I am the part of my brain still working after I switch tasks.* This reminds me of [[Learning]] through forced recall with spaced repetition. It's kind of like sleep on it. You can set yourself up for an easy re-entry of attention with [[The Hemingway Bridge]] Attentional residue is the idea that when we task switch we are less efficient because we keep a part of our brain working on the last task. This is why we feel more tired if we do lots of context switching throughout the day. It matters because if we want to have sustainable lives we need to reduce the amount of context switching by [[Design your life]] philosophy. Don’t just do what you did, with [[focus on the process not the goal]], you can sharpen the saw to make tomorrows work better by thinking about reducing context switching. ##### What would the opposite argument be? Whatever is most important t is what we should work on right now. If people are pushed away, we might offend them if we ask them not to interrupt in that way. If we don’t respond right now to the text, email, etc we will offend people, or at least fail to live up to their expectations in some way. tags: #note/idea | ##### Sources: