robertohanas

>As an Army Reservist who has deployed 5 times I have had to make the mental switch, though this is more like extreme switching on/off your entire life. Here is my limited coping strategy as it relates only to minor task delegation

Thanks for sharing, I hope they didn't take a tool on you.

> It is building the necessary focus a given task requires that is hard.

Would love if you could explain further this.

> I cannot provide guidance for dealing with the emotion or mental stress directly as my situation is a bit more extreme

Shit man, I imagine it must not be easy.

First of all: Thank you for your reply - very thoughtful, I double down on removing as much friction as possible - optimizing and making processes crystal clear.

Read also your other threads and all had great value.

To answer your inital question: The outcome is a context switch mitigator How? 1. connect triggers - Audio and/or Visual (see research papers bellow) to a context - leveraging the natural event segmentation where our brain uses environmental triggers to automatically prepare information that we might need - common real life example the "doorway effect" 2. Connect that trigger to a workspace (reduce the amount of distractions from trigger to effective work) that tracks your productivity ( no exact formula yet - was thinking about app category, apm, usage time and focus switches)

I hope that will help me and maybe others 1. load memories about the context they are starting and dump info about old context as in the doorway effect. 2. provide less distractions and enough data to reflect on the process.

Currently have a very rough MacOS demo - hoping to get it to a shareable version in 4months.

I found this exercise[1] useful at communicating the problem but not so much of a help on how to deal with it. [1] https://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2017/7/28-1

"Task 1 (counting from 1 to 26) took 5-48 seconds

Task 2 (reciting the alphabet) took 3-22 seconds

Task 3 (switching back and forth) took 27-110 seconds.

Importantly, every single student took longer to complete the combined Task 3 than the sum of the time it took them to complete both of the other tasks (Task 1 + Task 2). So, every student in my sample experienced task switching costs."

Any practices/tools you tried and failed?

Definitely! Especially what you are reading- watching is not directly related to the context / task.

Meditation seems to work for me as well as it "cleans the slate" - does a good job at removing the redundant information.

It does not however help that much with Starting the second context/task. That feels all on me.