[xyzzy123]

I love to single thread but nobody else seems to. A typical situation would be making a sandwich for one kid while two others are trying to talk to me at the same time, each rising in volume to cut through the noise of the other. Partner explains in roundabout way that something is needed tomorrow. I wonder what to do with that information and wish it had been communicated in fewer words while making the sandwich. Then the phone rings.

A lot of the time work has this character also.

[deafpolygon]

then you tell the kid to hold on, i’m making a sandwich give me a minute and teach them to wait a minute, tell your partner to sit together for breakfast or lunch to go over complicated thing, and don’t answer the phone, let the machine get it if you’re doing something. if it’s important right here, right now, then they can call back or you can call back after you’re done doing the thing.

modern society teaches us to be available to everything all at the same time, when we really need to learn how to slow down and refocus our thoughts on one thing at a time.