Split Attention

April 11, 2018 by John Andrew Williams

I had to do some updates on two laptops. Once completed I kept both computers, switching back and forth, trying to be super duper productive, no longer bounded by the operating time of a computer’s operating system or speed of connection. And I found I couldn’t concentrate or get down to real work for the life of me. Then I started thinking about all the other split or two-screens I also have open at the same time.

How do you know when your attention is split?

Bonus question: what’s the cost?