Comment by hyperman1

I tend to have many tasks in parallel, as there are always multiple blocked on input from someone else. E.g.

* 2-3 big programming tasks as focus for this week: I push one forward until I hit a wall, then task switch.

* A backlog of about 5 dumb non-urgent tasks for when the brain is not braining or in meeting filled days.

* 4-5 tasks where I keep asking people questions until the problem is understood. These tend to wake up when receiving information, take priority with 10-30 minutes of writing mails and looking up interesting cases, followed by a few days of waiting for an answer.