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65/365: Seneca on multitasking

Diffusion is dilution. When we spread our mindshare across many tasks, we end up with a thin layer of progress; a mile wide and an inch deep.

Pick one item on the list — go for that one. Not two, not three.

There is no merit to trying to do more at once because it destroys the emergence created from focused time. But this society celebrates those that appear to juggle more balls in the air.

It’s an illusion.

Reading 1,000 pages is good when you read four 250 page books, bad when you read one page from 1,000 different books.

Who is more effective?