Quantified Self Sunday: Mental P0rn or Minimizing Switching Cost

Since properly quantifying my daily routine/tasks, I've found out after heavy analytical session I will take a break. Unfortunately the break is highly unproductive considering I will spend more than 15 minutes shifting through tabs, emails, Twitter and Facebook feeds. To make matters worse none of the activities that I've done in that break time registered to my memory and the subsequent heavy stuff I'm doing do not have the same productivity level as before.

Then I've found out about switching cost. http://www.apa.org/research/action/multitask.aspx

The kind of work that I'm doing requires high level of mental awareness and switching from a topic to another topic can be mentally taxing. Therefore I need to reduce my switching cost to improve the next round of reading/writing.

For the last week I have tried using visual stimulus to improve my brain function and my productivity level improves. And I'm calling it..mental porn.

Porn according to Wikipedia is 'the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction. However in my case, 'mental porn' means visual subject that is insignificant but over-viewing it make you unproductive.

So here is the collective of my mental porn.

• Archdaily: The World's Most Visited Architecture Website 

• Scanwiches
• Awesome People Hanging Out Together
• Awesome People Reading

• Rides A Bike

• Bookshelf Porn

• Feminist Ryan Gosling

*Images above can be found in their respective sites.

Final word: Thank God for Tumblr!

Time spent: 11 minutes