You are never really multitasking: at any moment you can only be doing one thing, and the strain comes from pretending otherwise.

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• Multitasking is not thinking and impairs the ability to think, which means concentrating on one thing long enough WDWilliam Deresiewicz1 Mar 2010
• Ask "how hard can it be?" rather than forecasting the difficulty, because the work really is harder than you think and the suffering is better taken a day at a time. JHJensen Huang26 Jul 2026
• Small changes only compound when they are oriented toward a larger outcome; otherwise they evaporate rather than accumulate. JCJames Clear1 Jan 2026
• Trying to shortcut past necessary personal work always backfires, and real progress requires confronting oneself directly. AHAva Huang14 Sept 2026
• The scarce skill is now context switching across parallel agents, not sustained deep work. BCBoris Cherny4 Mar 2026

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