# Productivity
All Productivity notes →Context Switching
The attention-residue cost of every switch between tasks — a 5-minute interruption rarely costs 5 minutes.
Eliminating Distractions
Removing a distraction's access before a work session starts, since willpower rarely wins a real-time fight against a notification.
Focus Fundamentals
The baseline conditions — environment, single task, a defined stop condition — that make sustained focus possible at all.
Deep Work Sessions
Scheduling extended, distraction-free blocks for cognitively demanding work as a deliberate practice, not an accident of a quiet afternoon.
Flow State
The conditions — clear goal, immediate feedback, a challenge matched to skill — under which sustained focus turns into flow.
Digital Minimalism
Deliberately curating which tools and apps earn a place in a working day, instead of accumulating them by default.
Monotasking
Multitasking is mostly rapid task-switching with a throughput tax — monotasking is the default that protects deep work.