Ideas that need time - Mine and yours!

Came across this self-help book "Deep Work' by Cal Newport. Very surprised to have a CS professor writing self-help books. The topic that he chose as well is for efficient working by concentration. The interesting concept he talks about is attention residue theory. Attenttion residue is a concept which is on the other side of multi-tasking. Cal says that in 1990's he thinks people were reported to multi-task example: checking their inbox but also talking to a person at the same time. He says post 1990, the general trend is not just multi-tasking but a concept called attention residue. Meaning while doing work, we switch to social media like Facebook, youtube etc. We switch tasks before the task is complete. The attention residue theory states that when a task is switched, our brain still has attential residually stored while doing the other task. What this leads to is while getting back to work from your social media distraction, your attention residue of social