Patternv1PT-014
Context-switching tax pattern
the recurring cost where every task switch imposes a 10-25 minute recovery period of degraded performance, because the previous task's cognitive configuration must be fully unloaded before the new one can be loaded
Why This Is a Pattern
Exemplifies Directed Attention as Depletable Resource (attention is finite) and Attention as Gate to Conscious Perception (focus on selected stimuli). Recurs across all knowledge work, coding, writing, meetings.