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10 piecesthe multi-organization problem
A person belongs to many organizations at once. Every tool assumes one, every method assumes a task.
the room that forgot what it was for
Forty years of research built a place for each context and a memory of what it was for. Only the place shipped.
eleven minutes and four seconds
Three fields measured the interruption and none of them priced the time you were gone.
a root to stand on
Every multi-organization tool ships a switcher, not a root. So I built the root Paperclip shipped without.
no process control block
The phrase is borrowed. “Context switch” comes from the operating system, where it names the moment the CPU stops running one process and …
interest, not a toll
Every model of context switching I’ve read charges a toll. You switch, you pay: a few hundred milliseconds in the lab, some number of minutes in …
human multi-tenancy
In 2022 I coined hyper multitasking and left it at one line. Let me try again with a better word. Software has a term for one system serving many …
Structured Boredom
Philosophy graduates have a lower unemployment rate than computer science graduates right now — 3.2% versus 6.1%, per the New York Fed’s …
Tickler
A plugin for Paperclip that puts every organization you run on one page, with a single queue of what needs you, sorted by when you have to decide.
zsh_custom
A shell suite that makes moving between sixty-nine projects cost one keystroke — and makes coming back after a reboot cost nothing at all.