Comments on: Sequential Processing vs Multitasking

By: Singletasking vs. Multitasking

Singletasking vs. Multitasking — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:29:45 +0000

[...] Over at Life Optimizer, an article examines this very thing. It has been shown that it is faster to process things one at a time than to try and multitask the items, and the suggestion put forth that programmers should not be asked to do more than one thing at once. [...]

By: Donald Latumahina

Donald Latumahina — Fri, 04 May 2007 05:17:00 +0000

The key to success is to remained focussed while multitasking should go on in automata way without disturbing the seq way.

That’s a good solution. Sometimes we need to multitask but we should try to automate the other tasks so we can concentrate on only one task at hand. Nice tips!

By: Sharad Khandelwal

Sharad Khandelwal — Fri, 04 May 2007 02:01:57 +0000

I agree with you in general however multitasking is a natural way and you can not avoid it.The key to success is to remained focussed while multitasking should go on in automata way without disturbing the seq way.

By: Donald Latumahina

Donald Latumahina — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:08:32 +0000

Because if you run out of ideas or inspiration, your other project might give you new ideas while working on ideas from a completely different angle.

I agree, I often experience this myself. I think the idea of “sequential processing” here is working on a particular task as far as we can. As long as we still have the creative energy for that task, it would be unwise to switch to other task.

Thanks for the observation!

By: HP van Duuren

HP van Duuren — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:18:55 +0000

It might depend on the nature of the tasks, I think that for creative tasks like for example Writing, it can be very good to ‘Multi task’.

For example, If you write an article about a specific subject or a ‘Short Story’ for a magazine. It might be verry good to switch from one project to the other. Because if you run out of ideas or inspiration, your other project might give you new ideas while working on ideas from a completely different angle.