Singletasking by Caterina Fake (photo)

This is a handy PDF guide to this principle that I found useful:

http://practicalist.com/singletasking.pdf

I put together a background of this a month or so back: http://sponge-ing.com/post/83361398/an-image-of-a-whiteboard...

I have seen it before and, like last time, I really think I should follow some of this... I'm very bad at single-tasking and it doesn't help at all getting things done.

My inbox is a monster. Usually I've something like 4000 emails in my gmail inbox, I read most of the things, reply almost only to very important emails if I'm busy. All the rest is a flow - like twitter.

Email is not a serious thing this days. It is too simple to send one, and people keep writing emails about things not important, or that are trivial to figure without any help, containing a lot more words than needed to express an otherwise simple message and so on.

Do you really want to pass half of your life reading/writing emails about things that don't interest you? I don't want. This is one of the things that may affect your work performance in a critical way.

Of course for this to work, you have to have someone at/near the top that believes in it!

(...says someone who used to work in a place that would have gotten me fired if I had worked like this.)

This looks like treating the effect, not the cause.

What's the cause of allowing yourself to be distracted so much? Not focusing enough on your core work.

Once you focus on the most important thing, you'll be too busy to be distracted.

If you're not focusing on the most important thing, your problems are too big to be solved with a white board gimmick.