But when would I get to the hundreds of articles I’d saved? Was I merely shifting the problem from my browser to my phone? Here’s where the benefits of combining timeboxing with hacking back external triggers can yield big dividends. Everyone knows that multitasking destroys productivity, right? Haven’t we all seen studies and read articles telling us that it’s impossible to do two things at the same time? In some ways, that’s true. The evidence is pretty clear that humans are awful at performing two complex tasks at once. Generally speaking, we commit more errors when juggling many tasks at
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