Distractions

To do profound, hight quality intellectual work on a project, I need to forget all the other projects I am currently engaged in. Forgetting takes time (an hour or two). Ask me a brief question about another project once an hour — and I’ll have accomplished nothing by the end of day.

An employee working on a set of tasks throughout the day behaves similar and faces the same problems as OS working concurrently on a set of threads. I feel that many techniques that are used to support concurency in computers are completely overlooked in usual working practices but would be very beneficial.