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Subsequently, I think a lot about what I read & write
Now these notes are going live on the world wide web.
I like to think of it as 'plunging' the cr** out of news media, gathering facts and making occassional predictions (that are correct 97.8% of the time)

03/12/2011

» "[Cornell] Study links warm offices to fewer typing errors and higher productivity..." they're just bitter because they're cold up there in NY!

“Study links warm offices to fewer typing errors and higher productivity”… I don’t believe it! Arctic temperatures make me crazy productive! and by arctic I mean 65-69 degrees!

According to the daily stat’s synopsis of this Cornell study:

JULY 15, 2010

Chilly Offices Limit Productivity

Raising the temperature of an insurance company’s offices from 68 degrees to 77 degrees Fahrenheit (20 to 25 C) reduced typing errors by 44% and boosted typing output by 150%, according to a monthlong study by Alan Hedge of Cornell. The higher, more comfortable temperature resulted in a savings for the employer of about $2 per worker per hour, Hedge says.

Source: “Cornell News: Office temperature and productivity” via Harvard’s daily stat

Link posted at 5:55 AM (1 year ago) | Permalink

05/06/2009

“Every time we switch tasks, the brain shuts down connections to key information,” Multi-tasking isn’t always

The Multi-tasking Paradox - Efficiency doesn’t seem conducive to effective productivity, when we look at it from the brain’s perspective.  The eight pound organ has to re-boot back to task 1 of 6 every time you flip flop your way through tasks.

“Every time we switch tasks, the brain shuts down connections to key information.”

NPR’s recent obsession with the effects of Multitasking can be expanded upon further by these articles:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95256794&sc=nl&cc=es-20081019

Multitasking Teens May Be Muddling Their Brains

Posted at 6:54 AM (3 years ago) | Permalink

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