Cal Newport wrote about mental overhead, calling it the “cognitive strain associated with managing multiple tasks, projects, or commitments simultaneously.”
It includes the mental effort required to remember details, switch between tasks, and maintain focus.
As you increase the number of collaborations you’re involved with, you increase your mental overhead.- the load that your mind carries as it switches back and forth, managing all thee details.
And it isn’t necessarily a 1:1 trade-off, where the mental overhead may increase exponentially with the addition of just one more project.
Michael's Musings 