Brain Drain: The False Lure of Multitasking

More than a decade into the digital era, we know now that multitasking just doesn't work. Study after study has proven that texting, driving, scanning our Twitter feeds all at once makes us less productive—not more. In the United States many of my friends and colleagues and I begin our days this way: Upon waking, we “rollover,” that is, grab our cell phones off the nightstand or the floor or from under the pillow. Sometimes that’s because the alarm we set on our smartphones the...

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