Context Switching: Why It's So Hard to Avoid & How to Prevent It Anyway

Each time you switch between apps and tasks, you leave a little bit of your attention behind. Here's how to stop context switching for good...

Jump to section What is context switching? Why do we context switch? The "tax" we pay for each context switch Strategies to prevent context switching You probably won't finish this article. In fact, I may have already lost you to another tab in your browser. Or an email from your boss. Or a ping from a coworker. Or any number of other digital distractions that have come to define modern life. More and more, our work days feel like a Herculean struggle between emails, messages, and news alerts on the one side, and our beleaguered attention on the other. With the added pressures that come with w

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