The Switching Tax

Every time you jump between different kinds of work, your brain pays a quiet switching tax. Answer an email, write a report, hop on a call, then back to the report.

Batch processing kills this tax by grouping similar tasks together. Instead of answering emails all day, you handle them in one tight window. Instead of making calls as they pop into your head, you make them back-to-back. Same work, one warm-up — not twenty cold starts.