3 — The riddle of the batching system (I)

Multitasking has fooled many people. But doing too many things at once affects your efficiency because it causes a residual attention problem that prevents you from reaching your top-level performance.

If you focus on too many things, you cannot dedicate enough attention to any. You can’t reach a deep work state of mind, and simple tasks will take much longer to complete. So why would you ever want to do that?

There’s extensive research on the reasons why batched tasks work. For example, in Batch Processes, T. Cameron wrote about their advantages, challenges, and various techniques to use them.