Explain the felt cost of context switching across work scenarios.
npx skills add https://github.com/wojons/je-ne-sais-quoi --skill switching-costs
Please help me install this Agent Skill. Skill: switching-costs Source: https://github.com/wojons/je-ne-sais-quoi/tree/main/skills/switching-costs Command: npx skills add https://github.com/wojons/je-ne-sais-quoi --skill switching-costs
It helps you understand the lived, felt cost of transitioning between contexts—why interruptions and switching are not just time overhead, but a disruption of presence and deep alignment.
Ask the AI to apply the switching-costs tests to a specific workflow you use daily (like coding, writing, or studying) and to explain the difference between a “hollow” and a “felt” response.
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The real cost of context switching is a disruption of presence and deep alignment, not just lost time. Interruptions pull you out of an ongoing world, changing your relationship to the task when you eventually return.
A meeting-heavy schedule forces constant transitions between projects, draining you mentally. This happens because each context switch requires psychologically traveling and rebuilding the felt experience of the environment you left behind.
To explain losing focus, distinguish clinical context switching from the lived experience of being pulled out of a world. Use concrete scenarios to highlight the grief of the interrupted and the vestibule you pass through.
Test understanding by applying scenario-based validation to daily workflows like coding or writing. Check whether their response is hollow, offering generic productivity advice, or felt, pointing to the actual lived travel between worlds.
Avoid standard productivity advice when it reduces context switching to mere numbers or neuroscience-only explanations. It fails in multi-project environments where people need a felt explanation framework for returning to their task.
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