Talking with a friend yesterday, I was taken by his desire to get away from multi-tasking (the darling of management education the world over) and back to what he called mono-tasking. Instead of juggling many jobs, often inefficiently and based purely on quantity, he wanted to espouse the concept of doing a set of focused…

Markel in the lab will hate me for this as he likes to keep a separation of concerns between work and home. I agree – but over the next year I intended to blog more holistically as science is a key part of my personality.