Cal Newport

It doesn't care what they are.

It just sits there and operates one command after another.

And the whole game with getting processors to be effective is like, don't have downtime.

Like the real fear, I can put on my computer scientist hat for a second.

The real fear in computer processor design is that you sometimes get to a command

that's going to generate a huge delay.

So you say like, oh, go get something from memory.

That takes a lot of time from the perspective of like a computer processor cycle.

It's just sitting there cycle after cycle doing nothing while you're waiting for the memory bus or whatever.

So we invented these processor pipelines like, oh, while we're waiting to get something back from memory, here's some other stuff the processor can run so that it's never not working.

And the idea was you want to move as fast as possible and you never want to have downtime.

And that's how you get the most out of a computer processor.

The human brain is like 180 degrees different.

We can't just switch back and forth between unrelated commands.

You switch me from one to another thing and boom, 30 minutes of my mind is fried.

Humans operate very differently.

But I think Silicon Valley associated, it said, here's the thing we're going to associate with being really good at your job.

It might've used to been, I don't know, your skill.

It was Don Draper and Madman.

Remember that conception of, was it mean to be good at your job?