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Chapter 13

Juggling

Every switch has a cost nobody records.

The questionHow many things are you carrying at once, and what would finishing three of them be worth?

Multitasking wastes the constraint’s capacity in context-switching: the more simultaneous tasks, the less flow the system generates.

The scene this idea comes from publishes here later this summer.

You do not have to wait for it. Chapter 10 of the book, the one where the whole logic becomes visible, is ready to read now.

I will ask you one question back: which sentence in it describes something you are living through right now?