You often hear people extolling the virtues of multitasking: you get more done, It’s the way of the future.

Balls.

Multitasking is great if you want to fill your time doing a lots of things not very well, over a long period of time. Sure you can: flicking between checking your email, Twittering, writing a report, trying a new web app and chatting on Facebook. Are you busy? Probably. Are you productive? Probably not.

As I see it, there are two key problems here:

1. Doing non essential tasks
   Due to procrastination and self-distraction you are putting off certain tasks, by doing everything else but, the task you are supposed to be doing.
2. Task switching
   The other often overlooked issue is that of task switching — moving between one task and another. This is the issue I want to draw your attention to in this post.