task switching

productivity

The Multitasking Myth

In Quality Software Management: Systems Thinking [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0932633226/codihorr-20], Gerald Weinberg proposed a rule of thumb to calculate the waste caused by project switching: Even adding a single project to your workload is profoundly debilitating by Weinberg's calculation. You lose 20% of

By Jeff Atwood ·
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windows

ALT+TAB Extreme*

When I see people using the default, crappy Windows ALT+TAB task switching behavior, I experience physical pain. TaskSwitchXP [http://www.ntwind.com/taskswitchxp/index.html] is completely free and so much better. It's super small, totally elegant, lightning fast, and generally a massive improvement in task switching

By Jeff Atwood ·
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