"After several years of studies, Nass and other Stanford researchers came to some disturbing..."

“After several years of studies, Nass and other Stanford researchers came to some disturbing conclusions. They found that the heaviest multitaskers — those who invariably said they could focus like laser beams whenever they wanted — were terrible at various cognitive chores like organizing information, switching between tasks and discerning significance. “They’re suckers for irrelevancy,” he said. “Everything distracts them.” More worrisome to Nass was his finding that people who regularly jumped into four or more information streams had a tougher time concentrating on just one thing even when they weren’t multitasking. By his estimate, “the top 25%” of Stanford’s students were in that category. In a 2011 lecture at the university, Nass said writing samples from freshman multitaskers showed a tendency toward shorter sentences and disconnected paragraphs. “We see less complex ideas,” he said. “They’re living and writing in a staccato world.””



- Clifford Nass dies at 55; sociologist warned against multitasking - latimes.com (via michaelikesit)

Multitasking is pointless and wasteful at best … and at its worst, dangerous.

This modern age of constant, irrelevant information, endless buzzes and dings and the ever present bloodlust for immediate and instantaneous results is killing us. It’s wearing us down mentally and physically, ruining business, journalism, academia , as well as daily life.

I fucking hate it.

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