Install an interrupt System for the user

An interesting article.

From http://blog.donews.com/biantaishabi/archive/2005/10/18/593153.aspx

There was an article on NYT a few days ago, which is definitely interesting. Article , Meet the life hackers. Although a little long, there are six pages. When I went to the toilet to take a break in the middle of an extremely boring class on the stage in a Korean, I took my computer back to my research room. Starting from opening this link, Korean English, which is better than Japanese, disappears in my ears. In fact, a few days ago, the article was replaced by 43folders and lifehacker because of its content. Of course, the reporter mentioned that the founder of 43 also had such a name similar to lifehacker, so reprinting is inevitable. But I never read it until yesterday I found that BoingBoing and Slashdot had also transferred this article, so I felt sorry if I didn't read it.

The computer has a very important interruption system. When there is an emergency, the processor will first let go of the previous work, first handle the interruption, and then return to the previous work after processing. In addition, it can be determined based on the priority of the interruption. the interruption with a higher priority cannot be interrupted again with a lower priority. This article is about people. Now in the office, people will be interrupted by more and more ongoing work. It seems that there are countless things to achieve this goal, such as your email address, chat tools and mobile phones are getting more and more convenient when we contact others. In order to fully tap the potential of employees, the bosses often perform multi-task jobs like processors.

In order to study the current situation of work in the office, Mark asked her graduate students in the two high-tech companies on the west coast of the United States to be disturbed by the work of the employees sitting in the grid. After more than 1000 hours of observation, she found surprising results. Every employee spends only eleven minutes of uninterrupted continuous work on their projects, and it takes 25 minutes on average to return to their projects. She found that these interruptions were not dispensable, but critical links to work. When someone else forwards an email to you and calls you, it is important for you to handle it. These distracting things are not a disaster of work, but a part of work. In a engineering company, if you lose contact with others, you lose everything.

But there is no doubt that this will seriously affect your work efficiency. A long time ago, scientists studied the work of a telegraph typist. If they were disturbed at work, the probability of an error would rise. The article also talked about how NASA informed astronauts of important things, but tried to prevent them from being influenced by such information. A harsh alarm clearly tells astronauts that an accident has occurred, but in that environment, it is easy for astronauts to make mistakes. Today, the working environment in the office is getting more and more like astronauts. Just like they receive full screen information in the helmet, you also need to receive massive amounts of information at the same time. Generally, we do a lot of things every day, but never focus on one thing. However, this will make everyone feel great, probably because they feel an important illusion.

Czerwinski is studying at Microsoft how modern computers affect everyone's behavior. Because it seems that every Program All are trying to attract your attention, while the computer screen is only that large. They use a software that can record every movement in your mouse, keyboard, and computer to monitor everyone's behavior, and found that almost everyone opens seven or eight windows at the same time, such as e-mail messages, the most surprising thing about web pages or PPT documents is that they stay in the same window for no more than 20 seconds. They also found that a large computer screen can bring higher work efficiency, just like a relatively large table. Now this strange person is trying to work on three computer screens, one for program writing and the other two for other things. If my table is large enough, I would like to try this method.

In, a technical author Danny o'brien found that he was getting less and less efficient. As a result, he gave a survey of over 70 seemingly incredible and productive software engineers he knew, study the commonalities of their work. They are used to writing what needs to be done on to-do lists. But none of them are PDA-related high-tech things. They all use the simplest, such as opening a document and writing it in today's plan, or using the most primitive paper to pin it in front of their tables...

In short, it is worth looking.