Interface Mafia: Chunking Chunking is
Interface Mafia: ChunkingChunking is how your brain deals with complexity. It turns out that we humans can’t really handle much information at a given time; If you are a genius or an idiot, your working memory (the hip modern name for “short term memory”) can retain, at most, only about 7±2 things at one time. “Wait a minute!” you’re saying, “I deal with a lot more complicated things than that!!!” Well, you do and you don’t: When we are confronted with more than 7±2 things to think about we try to group some of them into “chunks” and tune the others out until we are again dealing with at most 7±2 things. The price we pay for chunking is we can only operate consciously on one level of chunking at a time...
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