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The article offers the author's insights on the aspects of progress in knowledge. The author explains how one would want knowledge to do, such as wanting it to be enough for good decision making. He says that people's ability to assess physical processes has developed, as seen in one's decision on research and development investments. He adds that people have discovered the ability of iteration at scale, in which small acts can achieve knowledge tasks that old methods would have not dared.

In this article, the author discusses the adverse impact of task switching on productivity, as well as the need to focus on a specific job at a time to improve outputs. He cites the reported claim by Basex Inc. chief executive officer (CEO) and chief analyst Jonathan B. Spira that almost 650 billion dollars a year was lost in the U.S. due to work interruptions. He presents as example the task of editing, in which he claims is affected by Internet-related activities.

The article reviews two online to-do-list and task management software including Gmail Tasks from Google and Remember the Milk.