Why switching attention from one thing to another wrecks your productivity

Hmm. It’s a fine line, though, between hyperfocusing and making progress and failing to switch tasks when productivity falls off. Personally, I need something happening to catch my “secondary attention” when I am deep in code. TV news, nature docs, music - something to catch my attention as soon as it starts to wander - otherwise I’ll either end up in a dark code hole or find something MORE distracting to focus on.

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