The Multitasking Myth
With regards to productivity and time management, the use of the term “multitasking” is a bit of a pet peeve of mine.
Multitasking is a trap, a siren song to the overworked. You can’t write multiple proposals at once, you can’t work on multiple webapps at once and you can’t give your attention to multiple clients at once. Chances are if you think you’re multitasking you’re either breaking up and prioritizing your tasks well (which is good, but not “multitasking”) or you aren’t giving any task your full attention.
Multitasking is a misleading term that has turned into a professional talking point and – in my opinion – it needs to be purged from our productivity vocabularies.
