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jurgenburgen • today at 11:11 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

When is multi-tasking ever productive? The biggest time sink is understanding the problem. I can’t understand two different problems at the same time.

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QuercusMax • today at 2:29 PM

How did you manage to go to school and handle multiple subjects at the same time? It's exactly the same thing.

I'm not talking about multitasking on a moment by moment basis. I'm talking about over the course of a day or week you have multiple reponsibilities. That's the most normal thing ever.

For example, current projects I'm working on include:

  - Babysitting a weeks-long data migration
  - Designing a better storage system for some parts our data
  - Implementing data cleanup for customers who have offboarded
  - Code hygiene improvements across the codebase to support static analyzers
  - Planning committee work for upcoming hackathon
And that's just me - I'm not even a team lead. Other people on my team are working on different things within our team scope.