What Seth is riffing on is that if you want to increase productivity make it possible for many people to be working on a project at the same time. Rather than needing the oversight of one person, which would cause A Bottleneck>
Bottlenecks happen in your daily life when you're waiting in line for the one coffeehouse bathroom,
Thank the wonders of parallel processing,
....for the invention of Bathroom Stalls.
Next time your waiting in line at a stadium, just be glad there's 20 stalls, not 1.
But if this is such a great idea, why don't we apply it to our daily life...
Could it be possible, Process more than one task at a time...? ie: Multitask>
Sadly, the answer is NO.
Unfortunately for us, the human brain can only function efficiently on one task at a time... If your a doubter, please let me know why at my Facebook (link below)
But every time you start a task and then get interrupted or multitask, it can take anywhere from 20-40 minutes to just regain your focus....
That means every single interruption you get... costs you 20-40 minutes to regain focus.
average that with 10 interuptions a day at 20 min, thats 2 hours frustratingly spent trying to regain focus. Thats over 700 hours wasted a year. Now how much is your time worth? some people work for $10, some for $5000, let's say your time is worth a good $50, thats $35,000, you lost because of myspace this year.... Ouch!
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More on focus to come
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