There’s a very simple trick (originally posted by danarm) for dealing with the most harmful consequence of attention hijacks, namely, the difficulty to return to where your mind was before the hijack occurred:
‘Most harmful consequence’ is highly situational here and evidently varies a lot from person to person. When I am returning to the task I have no particular need for a piece of paper to redirect me. The task is right there on the call stack, I’m just not doing it. Perhaps my hijackers are of a different kind.
My stack depth varies depending what I am doing. This is to be expected given that with expertise comes the ability to operate on long term memory more or less as working. My ‘programming’ stack on a project that I have been working on is more or less unlimited.
‘Most harmful consequence’ is highly situational here and evidently varies a lot from person to person. When I am returning to the task I have no particular need for a piece of paper to redirect me. The task is right there on the call stack, I’m just not doing it. Perhaps my hijackers are of a different kind.
I have a limited stack depth.
My stack depth varies depending what I am doing. This is to be expected given that with expertise comes the ability to operate on long term memory more or less as working. My ‘programming’ stack on a project that I have been working on is more or less unlimited.