At work, I'm being asked to do a few things in parallel and to be honest, I don't actually believe that such a thing is good in the type of mental work I do
a lot of my work is maintaining a working memory context of a complicated system or scenario long enough to reify that understanding into some output such as code or a document
the amount of "data" in these contexts is often very large compared to the amount of "memory" in my brain, sometimes even exceeding it
compared to a hard drive, the longer medium term memory of the brain is very "lossy" and it's not as simple as just pulling that context back up whole and complete
So avoiding context switches is vital
I don't think I'm saying anything here that would be strongly criticized by those with much more cognitive science knowledge than I even though I'm mostly describing how it feels to me
but I think this truth, much like the truth of people having different natural sleep schedules is inconvenient and thus ignored in favor of what capitalism wants from people, something closer to a computer
it's frustrating