[teampractices] [Discussion] Term for always prepping for the next thing

Wed Sep 9 18:15:50 UTC 2015

How much overlap is there between your sensation X and "future tripping
<http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=future%20tripping>"?

*--Joel Aufrecht*
Team Practices Group
Wikimedia Foundation

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Rob Lanphier <robla at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Max Binder <mbinder at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > Everything is set at an equally high priority, with each upcoming task
> > usurping the priority of the current task. There are no low priority
> moments
> > because stress of the upcoming tasks is the motivator to do the work. I
> also
> > do believe that context-switching is not limited to the traditional
> phrase
> > "multitasking," in that you can still do one thing at a time, but if you
> > don't carve out capacity for preparing to do work then you can't execute
> > when it is time to.
>
> Ah, I call that "being stuck in swap" (see the "Thrashing" article on
> Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrashing_(computer_science)>).
> In software and in life, it's tempting to try to do too much, where "too
> much" may well be "too much planning".  The software side of this problem
> is very well studied, and there are capacity management solutions.  I'm not
> familiar with an equivalent term to "stuck in swap" that applies to
> planning, so I've used that metaphor liberally in the past.
>
> Perhaps that's still the "multitasking" metaphor that you're trying to
> avoid, but I think that trying to plan the upcoming task at the same time
> as executing the current task *is* a form of multitasking.
>
> Rob
>
>
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