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Multitasking

NPR
Published September 25, 2000 at 12:00 AM EDT

Commentator David Weinberger realizes the current vogue in business to "multitask," but argues that few do it, and no one does it well. Slicing your attention, he says, is like slicing a plum -- you lose some of the juice.

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