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When you see a bunch of good-looking people rent out a mountain cabin or a lake house for the summer, and especially if it is set in the middle of some of the most breathtaking scenery you have ever seen - crisp blue skies with fluffy white clouds, lush greenery, and clear deep blue waters with hardly a ripple in them - you just know there's going to be trouble.

As software engineers learning about storage technologies one of the first things we encounter is the file system, how it stores data in blocks that need not be contiguous, and how this kind of fragmentation can slow down the retrieval of data. This teaches us that contiguous is good and fragmentation is bad. And yet, despite knowing this, we almost always end up fragmenting our focus under the guise of multi-tasking.

We must have all seen a mail on employee productivity, supposedly written by N R Narayana Murthy,  doing the rounds on social media.  While it is debatable whether the author is really Mr Murthy or not, it does make some valid points and raises pertinent questions.  Namely -