Cal Newport

That's probably about optimal.

Instead, we juggle a dozen to two dozen tasks that all have their own demands, they all have their own communication needs.

This is why the Microsoft data shows, oh, the work happens faster

Saturday and Sunday morning.

It is really hard.

You can't go from, and meetings are very hard as well.

We think like, oh, I'm not actually doing work during meetings.

But what you are engaging in a meeting is all the parts of your brain that deal with social interaction.

And those are a large part of your brain.

And that is a fraught and mental energy consuming activity to sit in a room or on a Zoom screen and try to manage all these different people and how do I look and what am I saying and what's going on here and I have to say the right things.

It's draining.

And you come out of something like that.

it's difficult just to jump right back into something else.

And if you come out of something like that, and there was a lot of obligations generated, oh, we discussed in this meeting things I need to do.

And now you try to go straight from that meeting into another.

Well, now that's really in the back of your head.

What about this?

What about this?

We can't forget this.

We just made our obligations.