Weighed in this morning after being out of town for a few days and discovered I just hit my target weight. Lost 18 pounds in 7 weeks and 1 day with no change in behavior other than recording what food I'm eating & maintaing a daily target for net caloric intake. Belt on the last notch, pants lose, feeling great!
Doing too much often translates into getting little done:If you think your multitasking skills are improving your productivity, think again. Consistent with other multitasking research, a new working paper (ungated version) by Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino and Nicola Persico analyzes a sample of Italian judges with different caseloads and finds that “task juggling, i.e., the spreading of effort across too many active projects, decreases the performance of workers, raising the chances of low throughput, long duration of projects and exploding backlogs.” The authors highlight the role of work scheduling in employee productivity, writing that “[i]ndividual speed of job completion cannot be explained only in terms of effort, ability and experience: work scheduling is a crucial ‘input’ that cannot be omitted from the production function of individual workers.”
