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I Thought I Needed To Multitask Until I Learned About Single-Tasking. Now I Feel Multi-Silly.

I’m not saying I was chatting, writing a paper, listening to music, browsing Facebook, and drafting emails while I was writing this sentence. But I’m not saying I wasn’t either.

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Rajiv Narayan

Dr. Hamblin’s argument seems to be about being more productive, but beyond getting more things done for ourselves, multitasking is also about how we relate to people we care about.

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