Context Switching Quotes

Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.

I like to be multi-contextual, which is much more important than being multicultural.

The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.

In high school, I interned at my mother's restaurant and learned the small-business ropes. It was really instructive and taught me to switch contexts quickly, as I contributed to everything from managing the reception desk to building their website.

I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.

Work is a different type of pursuit than relationships. You can't take the skills that you know that have gotten you into that great school or into that great job and apply them to your relationships.

I've never found that it jars to go back and forth.

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.

I love the web, but man, I look at my browser, and there are, like, twenty tabs up there, all jostling for space and time, all framed by a mosaic of other apps, other work, other entertainment... so even when I really am paying attention to something on the web, there's this peripheral haze.

I know I walk in and out of several worlds each day.

I have to kind of like switch heads. Sometimes I manage it seamlessly, and other times I feel rather all over the place. I feel a bit schizophrenic, like I have a split personality.