Russell argues that as robots take on more complicated tasks, it's necessary to translate our morals into AI language.

The platforms that are most effective turn employees' ordinary job tasks into part of a rich adventure narrative.

It seems higher education has become an industry of meeting-holders whose task it is to solve problems— real or imagined.

While most people will still probably need, and be, to some extent, clock-timers, task-based timing should be used when performing a job that requires more creativity.

What, then, are the effects of thinking about time in these different ways? Does one make us more productive? Better at the tasks at hand? Happier? In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne-Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities—from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga—by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under clock time vs task time.

They work down the list, each task starts when the previous task is completed.

They set a time limit for each specific task.

They give priority to the most urgent task on hand.

They combine clock-based and task-based planning.

They accomplish their tasks one by one.

The researchers argue that task-based organizing tends to be undervalued and under-supported in the business culture.

Task-based timing is preferred for doing creative work.

Task timers are happier and more creative, but less productive.

Smart companies, they believe, will try to bake more task-based planning into their strategies.

Shouldn't preparing—and consuming—food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans? Why would we want to outsource ( ' , 外包 ) this basic task, especially when outsourcing it is so harmful? When I talk about cooking, I'm not talking about creating elaborate dinner parties or three-day science projects.

On the other hand, task-timers have a list of things they want to accomplish.

It'll make those tasks easier, and the task-doers will be happier.

It does not attach enough importance to task-based practice.

Well, to continue, as I mentioned earlier, there is also research that demonstrates that individuals perform worse, not better on tasks when other people are there.

Already, by paying close attention to and interacting with the world and people around him, and without any school-type formal instruction, he has done a task far more difficult, complicated and abstract than anything he will be asked to do in school, or than any of his teachers has done for years.

Earlier this year, Italy signed an accord with UNESCO to establish a task force of police art detectives and archaeologists (考古學(xué)家) to protect cultural heritage from natural disasters and terror groups, such as IsiS.

In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne- Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities — from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga — by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under "clock time" vs "task time"

It seems higher education has become an industry of meeting-holders whose task it is to "solve" problems—real or imagined.

You mean high school graduates can't do this task in general?

She borrowed the principle of efficiency on the factory floor and applied it to domestic tasks on the kitchen floor.

On this task, they found large differences.

The full details are complicated - the text alone runs to 385 pages–?and trying to summarise it is no easy task.

It's no small challenge for a blog run by a group of ordinary—if ambitious—young people, but the members of Generation O are up to the task.

The number of hours we work has not changed much, but we spend less time now on home tasks.

So you can see how being good in the interpersonal realm actually was a direct benefit, even for effectively pursuing a technical task.

What does the speaker say contributes to effectively pursuing a technical task

Common research has long held that talking themselves through a task helps children learn, although doing so when you'v apparently matured is not a great sign of brilliance.

Ego aside, a third advantage is that the emotional neutrality of indifferent relationships has been found to enhance critical evaluation, to strengthen one's focus on task resolution, and to gain greater access to valuable information.

In his latest experiment, published online in August, Steinberg and his colleagues used a computerized version of a card game called the Iowa Gambling Task to investigate how the presence of peers affects the way young people gather and apply information.

Internal recovery refers to the shorter periods of relaxation that take place within the frames of the work day or the work setting in the form of short scheduled or unscheduled breaks, by shifting at physical resources required for the initial task are t

Let's face it, it wasn't too long ago that the idea of working from anywhere and at anytime was some form of a distant utopian dream,and yet now we can perform almost any office-based task from any location in the world as long as we have access to the in

like Schwartz and so many others,I often find myself distracted and off task.

New research says that those who can't seem to keep their inner monologues in are actually more likely to stay on task, remain focused better and show improved perception capabilities.

Our own decision-making abilities can become depleted over the course of the day causing indecision or poor choices, but choosing on behalf of someone else is an enjoyable task that doesn't suffer the same pitfalls.

Psychologists have recently focused on the tendency to think about something other than the task one is doing.

Put the list away and then set yourself the same task a week later.

The results: Teens who played the Iowa Gambling Task under the eyes of fellow adolescents engaged in more exploratory behavior, learned faster from both positive and negative outcomes, and achieved better performance on the task than those who played in s

This is not an easy task.

When her mother was interviewed, three weeks after her daughter's birth, she was asked if she was prepared for what might be a daunting task caring for her.