It's been amply documented that the idea of achieving greater productivity through "multi-tasking" is a myth. [1] Here's the late Stanford professor of communication Clifford Nass on an NPR broadcast with Ira Flatow in 2013: The research is almost unanimous, which is very rare in social science, and it says that people who chronically multitask … Continue reading You’re Not Multi-Tasking, You’re Half-Assing