(via 43folders, photo originally uploaded by Tim Morgan)
There seems to be some growing consensus on multitasking being bad for productivity. The basic argument against multitasking goes like this (via Theory of Constraints Blog):
“Multi-tasking is the act of stopping a task before it is completed and shifting to something else; in software development the term “thrashing” […]

The other day Stan and I had a chat with a guy at Boulder’s tuesday night “French Table” (at L’Absinthe). We talked a while about generic internet startup business stuff when all of a sudden the guy asked the seemingly naive question:
How many users are there? In general?
The moment I was about to answer with […]

Irony 2.0 applies to web 2.0 services that are doomed to fail once they become successful.
The more successful they become, the more attractive they are for spammers, marketers, or vandals to infiltrate them.
I always had the intuition that web 2.0 poster child Digg would be the first service that is going to be affected by […]

“Everyone knows what attention is. It is the taking possession by the mind in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought…It implies withdrawl from some things in order to deal effectively with others, and is a condition which has a real opposite in the […]

At the end of the day it’s just me in an eyetracker. Things could happen faster, but I am still confident to be able to run some actual experiments while I’m here. I’ll keep you up to speed.