Jake Burhans uses a distraction pad during focus sessions: when random tasks or ideas pop up, he writes them down instead of switching attention. After the session ends, he handles them all at once. It cuts context-switching and keeps deep work intact.
One thing I've been implementing, which I learned from Limitless, is using a distraction pad. So if I'm in a focus session, I'm cold calling or doing something else, there's obviously gonna be thoughts that pop into my head that I need to go do, like, oh, write this task down, or I need to remember to do this, or oh, I have to do that. Instead of switching my attention so frequently, I can write it down on a piece of paper, and then after I'm done what I'm doing, say it's like an hour cold calling session, I'll look at that piece of paper and then I'll do all the tasks instead of constantly just switching my attention.
