{"id":7441,"date":"2014-09-17T14:41:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T20:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=7441"},"modified":"2014-09-17T14:41:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T20:41:37","slug":"damn-and-i-thought-it-was-a-skill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=7441","title":{"rendered":"Damn, and I thought it was a skill&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems multi-tasking is not as useful a talent as I like to tell myself.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People often start multi-tasking because they believe it will help them get more done. Those gains never materialize; instead, efficiency is degraded. However, it provides emotional gratification as a side-effect. (Multi-tasking moves the pleasure of procrastination inside the period of work.) This side-effect is enough to keep people committed to multi-tasking despite worsening the very thing they set out to improve.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@cshirky\/why-i-just-asked-my-students-to-put-their-laptops-away-7f5f7c50f368\">Why I Ask My Students To Put Away Their Laptops<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems multi-tasking is not as useful a talent as I like to tell myself. People often start multi-tasking because they believe it will help them get more done. Those gains never materialize; instead, efficiency is degraded. However, it provides emotional gratification as a side-effect. (Multi-tasking moves the pleasure of procrastination inside the period of work.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}