Can task-switching hinder decisions?
Switching between a reflection test and a fluid #IQ test lowered optimal reflection test scores and completion compared to taking the tests separately (N = 80).
Bad news for #multitasking?
https://ianburbidge.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ian-burbidge-masters-dissertation-1.pdf
"Smaller, more frequent releases implies software's in a shippable state more often, which implies faster build & test cycles… and down the rabbit hole we go."
The #European #Spreadsheet #Productivity and #Risk Interest Group (eusprig.org) are pleased to announce that streaming tickets are now available for the EuSpRIG 2025 Annual Conference.
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#Excel
What if strategy could feel less like:
Forcing your brain to perform and produce
and more like:
A flow-state playground where your ideas get to breathe?
It can.
Don't believe me?
Join me for next week's No-BS Strategic Clarity Workshop to get a fresh breath of air, yourself!
I'm curious to know if any of y'all have found a good way of visually mapping networks?
Years ago I heard of a thing called Cytoscape.
If some entity like LinkedIn (Microsoft), Apple, or Meta has considerable access to the landscape of our relationships, we ought to be able to work with this data, too. Your thought(s)?
#data #organization #privacy #productivity
Want to know more about Thunderbird Pro, including Thundermail? Our latest Community Office Hours has you covered! We're discussing planned features, answering questions, and getting to know our new productivity suite before it hatches!
#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Productivity
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/06/video-thunderbird-pro-and-thundermail/
I suspect the reason AI is supposedly improving productivity is that most office work is simultaneously so boring, repetitive and stressful that most workers are eager to automate it in the vain expectation that they will have less work to do. Of course, that is pure naiveness, since managers, capitalists, and shareholders never cease to come up with great new ideas for multiplying the amount of work assigned to that worker. After all, we are slaves to capital.
"Solving the problem of hidden AI use (what I call “Secret Cyborgs”) is a Leadership problem. Consider the incentives of the average worker. They may have received a scary talk about how improper AI use might be punished, and they don’t want to take any risks. Or maybe they are being treated as heroes at work for their incredible AI-assisted outputs, but they suspect if they tell anyone it is AI, managers will stop respecting them. Or maybe they know that companies see productivity gains as an opportunity for cost cutting and suspect that they (or their colleagues) will be fired if the company realizes that AI does some of their job. Or maybe they suspect that if they reveal their AI use, even if they aren’t punished, they won’t be rewarded. Or maybe they know that even if companies don’t cut costs and reward their use, any productivity gains will just become an expectation that more work will get done. There are more reasons for workers to not use AI publicly than to use it.
Leadership can help. Instead of vague talks on AI ethics or terrifying blanket policies, provide clear areas where experimentation of any kind is permitted and be biased towards allowing people to use AI where it is ethically and legally possible. Leaders also should consider training less an opportunity to learn prompting techniques (...), but as a chance to give people hands-on AI experience and practice communicating their needs to AI."
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/making-ai-work-leadership-lab-and
In fact #totalfactor #productivity outside government appears to have declined slightly since 2019. Like you I think #capital has been over rewarded for what it has contributed so rather fancy returning to the #crosland and #peston idea of the state mobilising and providing additional #capital - as it did before #margaretthatcher - or even going further still and reviving the idea of 'the state as entrepreneur' in fashion half a century back!
There is a view that #multifactor #productivity in the #uk is actually quite high by international standards - and that the real problem is one of factor proportions - too little #capital as against #labour in particular. To which the answer would be either to attract in #capital or for the #uk to find the #capital itself. One form of #endogenousgrowththeory suggests that the latter strategy would work well. Interpreting fiscal rules to enable it would make sense!
As Tej Parikh (FT) suggests, there's no 'puzzle' to the UK's low productivity, the puzzles is the lack of ability to shape a workable response.
We already know productivity rises are depressed by:
a lack of investment;
widespread failing management;
regional misallocation of what investment there is (too much in the SE);
badly matched education & work opportunities;
staggeringly high energy costs;
and more recently Brexit.
But shaping a workable response... that's the puzzle!
Hi macOS users, after 25 years of using Linux as a daily driver, I'm switching to macOS on my work machine.
I come from Arch Linux, i3 as window manager and Emacs the development environment. What kind of apps, tools and tricks would you recommend me?
This is what I've got so far: https://gitlab.com/skybert/my-little-friends/-/blob/master/macos/install-unix-env-on-macos.sh?ref_type=heads
Comments and tips are all much appreciated.
Me, who sets up a complex to-do system that I ignore on day 2
Currently reading a used copy of "Out of the Crisis" (W. Edwards Deming, 1982) It is fascinating with many important insights into #economics and #quality_improvement.
Re #DOGE, #Musk, et al he quotes and interview with Oscar A. Ornati...
"A deeply embedded laissez-faire ideology has mis-taught this country the importance of #productivity from a very narrow, very mechanistic definition. We have forgotten that the function of government is more #equity oriented than #efficiency oriented. The notion that we must be "efficient" in the same way in both sectors is fallacious. For government, efficiency must be subsumed to equity."
"If we do not keep equity in the forefront of the public sector, we will destroy our #society."
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How it started: new job requires time tracking, this should be fine, just some additional structure
How it's going: howwww da f*** am I supposed to time track ADHD butterfly moments of dancing around several tasks and working on them a tiny bit???
Working longer hours is killing productivity, report warns
By Bronwyn Herbert
Australia is facing an urgent productivity problem, with a new report showing the country is at a standstill.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-28/productivity-commission-growth-report/105336036
got myself a cat lately.
not as a pet, but as a teacher.
she reminded me how to rest, say no, and just be.
wrote a short piece on it: https://pbg.bearblog.dev/become-a-cat/
I enjoyed doing yoga today, the instructor was engaging and it felt like exactly the session my body needed. I got some house work done. It's almost summer
#yoga #housework #summer #wellbeing #goodday #happy #productivity #gratitude
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