Optimize Your Current Context
Context, in the sense we’ll talk about it here, is the set of information that is currently loaded into your short-term memory related to the task at hand. In computer terms, it’s your working set of pages that have been fetched into memory.
Computers have a distinct advantage over our mental architecture; they are built to swap context easily and naturally.
We aren’t built that way. If something interrupts us, breaks our flow, or causes us to lose our focus, it’s really expensive to drag everything back in. We call that “dragging everything back in” context switching. We’re going to take a look at why you want to avoid that at all costs, and how to avoid distractions and manage interruptions better.
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