Comments on: Podcast #53 http://thecommandline.net/2006/06/25/podcast-53/ Podcast and blog exploring digital citizenry as a creator and a consumer. Tue, 15 May 2012 23:05:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Administrator http://thecommandline.net/2006/06/25/podcast-53/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Administrator Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:57:52 +0000 http://beta.cmdln.net/?p=198#comment-40 Again, sorry it took so long to moderate this coment, I am double checking my settings. I want to say I read somewhere that multitasking is actually nowhere near as productive as some would like to think, or would like us to think. I agree, I think deep hack mode is the perfect counter example. I doubt it is the only one. Glad you are enjoying the podcast! Again, sorry it took so long to moderate this coment, I am double checking my settings.

I want to say I read somewhere that multitasking is actually nowhere near as productive as some would like to think, or would like us to think. I agree, I think deep hack mode is the perfect counter example. I doubt it is the only one.

Glad you are enjoying the podcast!

]]> By: Brian Phelps http://thecommandline.net/2006/06/25/podcast-53/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Brian Phelps Thu, 06 Jul 2006 02:34:26 +0000 http://beta.cmdln.net/?p=198#comment-39 Your comments and Inner Chapter on deep hack mode, hit home with me. Whether I am doing embedded systems programming in C, or writing some "glue script" in python, bash, or perl, I fall into this mode. I am cranky when someone tries to pull me out of it, and I will often skip food if it is not near by. By default I gotta keep notes because I have always believed that first step to efficiently solving any complex problem is to draw it out in a diagram somehow. Often folks I work with (non-engineers) don't understand why I either have to do this stuff at home, or before/after normal hours. There are just way too many distractions with cell and office phonecalls, emails, people bugging me, etc to do it then. I was once told by one of these non-engineers that I need to "learn to multitask" Multitasking is easy when doing the mundane paperwork, answering calls, emails, estimating project costs, but when I am working in Deep Hack Mode, I work much more sloppily and slowly with these distractions than I do in a low interrupt environment. Thanks for the thought-provoking and insightful podcast! Your comments and Inner Chapter on deep hack mode, hit home with me. Whether I am doing embedded systems programming in C, or writing some “glue script” in python, bash, or perl, I fall into this mode. I am cranky when someone tries to pull me out of it, and I will often skip food if it is not near by. By default I gotta keep notes because I have always believed that first step to efficiently solving any complex problem is to draw it out in a diagram somehow.

Often folks I work with (non-engineers) don’t understand why I either have to do this stuff at home, or before/after normal hours. There are just way too many distractions with cell and office phonecalls, emails, people bugging me, etc to do it then. I was once told by one of these non-engineers that I need to “learn to multitask”

Multitasking is easy when doing the mundane paperwork, answering calls, emails, estimating project costs, but when I am working in Deep Hack Mode, I work much more sloppily and slowly with these distractions than I do in a low interrupt environment.

Thanks for the thought-provoking and insightful podcast!

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