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Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00

Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle. The Productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:13

I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:14

And we're hosts for Anything But Idle. Today is September 27 2021. And this is the episode Google Calendar ads, Google Chat. And so of course, every week we read and cover the news of the week. And we start off with our productivity articles from the blogosphere. Agusta, what is our first article this week.

Augusto Pinaud 0:37

So the first article we have is from make use off and it's titled Why context switching is sabotaging your productivity and what you can do about it. And really what they talk about context switching is fast switching, you know what happened when you're working on something, and then you get a distraction, you get a beeping, you get a notification, and then you move on trying to do the famous multitasking that the only thing that produces multi failure, at least from my experience, but and I agree it's a great article, it's a short article to read. And I love the beginning of the article says When is the last time you get 30 minutes on uninterrupted time. And this is something I work a lot with, with clients, you know, they don't get interrupted time and sometimes our own fault, because instead of having our devices work for us, we tend to work for our devices. Or when you look most people do not have take the time to decide which notifications are important. Which notifications we're really want to get, they just instead open. You know the flow of notifications to anything. I I have said for years, I don't check email on my iPhone, I check email on the iPad, I carry the iPad with me 99% of the time sorry,