Relativity

[flarenut]

I feel lately like a conflation of a couple of characters from Vernor Vinge's True Names: the Mailman AI, who was non-realtime and communicated by teletype, and one of the oldtimers who relied on hacks like short-term-memory reload to stay sentient. Probably any parent (or fulltime caregiver) can relate: the number of hours a day spent being called

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[selki]

Interesting thoughts about the science fiction books.

Speaking of flow, I have been trying to get my company to look at research about interruptions and (ineffective) multi-tasking impacts to productivity.