A common type of time sink - by Alex - Cognition Café

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A common failure mode in which people sink large amounts of time and effort into distractions.

There is a detrimental attractor state which is extremely common for people to fall in. At Conjecture, where I work, we use the word “Nexus” to refer to this state.1 Briefly put, a Nexus is a situation in which you get distracted from your overarching or stated goals and you waste a lot of time, resources and effort working on the distraction or respecting unnecessary constraints. Similar concepts are “being tunnel visioned” or “losing the big picture”, but a Nexus is a particularly nasty version of this. A Nexus is a type of tunnel vision in which you not only miss obvious solutions to…

A common type of time sink - by Alex - Cognition Café

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