Josh Ether

The internet has fundamentally changed the way we work. The shift has been so dramatic that the term ‘work’ is headed towards obscurity. We are always ‘online’, always ‘connected’, always ‘available’. We are constantly bombarded with emails, Twitter notifications, Facebook messages, and Slack messages. As a result, we have become a generation of multi-taskers.

The problem with multitasking is that it is that's it's simply not possible for the average human to do two things at once. When we try to multi-task, we are just switching our attention from one task to another very rapidly. This process of switching attention from one task to another uses up a lot of mental energy and can lead to mistakes being made.