👨🔬 Scientific Research Studies (that support using Twos)
by Joe · 19 things on NewTwos
- Problem
- Number of thoughts per day: 6,200+ per day, 6.5 per minute (Queen's University)
- Amount of things we forget: 56% within an hour, 66% after a day (Ebbinghaus' Forgetting Curve)
- Our working memory: holds 4 to 7 things for seconds at a time (Nelson Cowan, University of Missouri)
- 65% of people use >6 different apps to organize their lives
- Workers spend 1.8 hours every day (9.3 hours per week) searching and gathering information. (McKinsey)
- Workers toggle between as many as 35 different applications nearly once every minute, totaling 1,100+ switches per day (Pegasystems desktop monitoring software)
- Large enterprises have on average 367 different software tools in use across the organization, creating data silos everywhere (Forrester Consulting).
- Attention Span decreasing
- Increase in consumer information
- Social media leads to depression
- Solution
- David Allen: “Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”
- By unloading the brain, we can be more productive (Sarina Schrager, MD American Academy of Family Physicians)
- AI tools can improve productivity by as much as 66%
- AI assistants (Digital Productivity Assistants) “partner” with users as a co-pilot, helping to plan, monitor, and regulate work in a personalized way. (Jocelyn Cranefield, New Zealand Journal)
- Random
- Note-taking market CAGR increasing 22.5% yearly
- Heavy multitaskers have reduced memory