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[Update.estrategy.ubc.ca] e-Strategy Update » Blog Archive » Q&A - with tech writer Clive ...: Technology writer Clive Thompson Q: We came across an article you wrote for the New York Times Magazine in October (“Meet the Life Hackers”) where you talked about how interruptions affect the way we work. Is it true that office multitasking can drive you nuts?

[Collisiondetection.net] collision detection: "Meet the life hackers": My latest feature ...: By a sizable margin, life hackers are devotees not of Microsoft but of Apple, the company's only real rival in the creation of operating systems -- and a company that has often seemed to intuit the need for software that reduces the complexity of the desktop. When Apple launched its latest operating system, Tiger, earlier this year, it introduced a feature called Dashboard -- a collection of glanceable programs, each of which performs one simple function, like displaying the weather.

[E-strategy.ubc.ca] 0511-qanda: A:  Yes, but it’s no simple matter for a computer to recognize a user’s “busy state” because everyone is busy in their own way.  A programmer is busy when he or she is silent and furiously typing code.  A manager is more likely to be busy when they’re talking on the phone or doing a PowerPoint presentation.  There may soon be computer programs using artificial intelligence that ”˜sense’ when you’ll be checking your e-mail or when you’ll be back in the office or when you shouldn’t be bothered.  The program would tiptoe around when things are hectic and barge in only when the crises have passed.

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