0070 - too many things on the mantel shelf

To one with a troubled mind, even the sweetest apple will taste rotten. ~ Not sure I've always struggled with multitasking, especially at work. It's so alluring to try to do multiple things at once, more so when whatever I'm doing is slow-going or, in general, I have to wait more than 30 seconds for things to compile. I'm also often prone to that close cousin of multitasking called procrastination, which is basically the same but with the added benefit that I feel guilty about it! Whenever I spend long spans of time doing more than one thing at a time, I end up feeling exhausted, my mind a quagmire of half-formed ideas. Lately at work this feeling has increased dramatically, and I think it's mostly because I've been using coding agents a lot more. In part it's because my employer has been pushing for everyone to adopt this new technology as much as possible; in part it's because I'm a tinkerer at heart and am curious to see what I can do with it; but mostly (especially lately), it's…