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I like to think of a Multitasker like a physical object with forces being applied in different vectors. Because you are pulled in all directions at once, the sum of all the forces (if not done right) ends up being negligible or worse going in the wrong direction

Strong analogy. The wave vector dual of this would be the superposition of waves that constructively/destructively interfere.

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Lovely. Taking it further - something along the lines of, each phase is a single task (ish?) - destructive interference emerges from tasks being out of phase

That’s a nice way to put it

Fourier Transforms rule everything around me

Also this makes a lot of sense and is my fav way to delve deeper into this so far

Yes that’s the general idea. But if we (for whatever reason) wanted a more faithful model, it would be better to define a task as itself a superposition of pure ‘basis’ tasks, each corresponding to a complex exponential. That would serve to more accurately capture the topology of the manifold of real-world tasks.