How much overlap is there between your sensation X and "future tripping <http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=future%20tripping>"?
*--Joel Aufrecht* Team Practices Group Wikimedia Foundation On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Max Binder <[email protected]> wrote: > > Everything is set at an equally high priority, with each upcoming task > > usurping the priority of the current task. There are no low priority > moments > > because stress of the upcoming tasks is the motivator to do the work. I > also > > do believe that context-switching is not limited to the traditional > phrase > > "multitasking," in that you can still do one thing at a time, but if you > > don't carve out capacity for preparing to do work then you can't execute > > when it is time to. > > Ah, I call that "being stuck in swap" (see the "Thrashing" article on > Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrashing_(computer_science)>). > In software and in life, it's tempting to try to do too much, where "too > much" may well be "too much planning". The software side of this problem > is very well studied, and there are capacity management solutions. I'm not > familiar with an equivalent term to "stuck in swap" that applies to > planning, so I've used that metaphor liberally in the past. > > Perhaps that's still the "multitasking" metaphor that you're trying to > avoid, but I think that trying to plan the upcoming task at the same time > as executing the current task *is* a form of multitasking. > > Rob > > > _______________________________________________ > teampractices mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices > >
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