closet multitasking

Closet multitasking is when you show up for remote meetings pretending to be in attendance but really working on something else.

Bob: Did you hear in the staff meeting that no one can take vacation in February?
Jane: No. Did Fred say that?
Bob: Absolutely. What were you closet multitasking?

The Boss: Jim, How are sales doing?
Me: crickets - no reply
The Boss: WTF, Jim? You closet multitasking?

by jfburke619 January 26, 2021

UNPREDICTABLE MULTITASKING

PSYCHObabble

I know what I am doing as this throws you through a loop my UNPREDICTABLE MULTITASKING as you implying PSYCHO because I don't finish something when you expect ,Vis an insult to have to walk around the other day in a RIPPED DRESS which as you know can be quite dangerous as a lot of people use play on words tactics for attacks and that is not PSYCHObabble.

by FOLLOW THE PERFECT SUN September 7, 2021

The multiples of 7

The evil. The multiples of 7 cause evil towards all of us. Most people have a lucky number of 7, those people are tainted by 7 and his evil games. Those who are smart will prefer 9, who is the defender of us all against the multiples of 7. 49 is the worst for it is 7 times 7. Double 7. The only good multiple of 7 is 77. He left the multiples of 7 to help 9 to defend us.

Never trust the multiples of 7. They are trying to ruin us all.

by Standby9 August 14, 2023

Scientific Multiperspectivism

The methodological commitment to studying phenomena from multiple, irreconcilable perspectives simultaneously, accepting that no single viewpoint captures everything and that different perspectives reveal different truths. A cell is simultaneously a biochemical machine (biology), a legal entity (patent law), a site of labor (the technician's experience), and a piece of someone's body (the patient's experience). Multiperspectivism doesn't try to synthesize these into one master perspective—it holds them in tension, moving between them as the situation demands. It's the science of binocular vision applied to everything.

"Your paper on this disease only considers the molecular mechanism. Scientific Multiperspectivism demands: what's the patient's experience? The epidemiologist's pattern? The healthcare system's cost? The cultural meaning of illness? The molecule is real, but so are all the other perspectives. Science needs them all."

by Abzugal February 23, 2026

Epistemological Multiperspectivism

The methodological commitment to knowing from multiple, irreconcilable perspectives simultaneously, accepting that no single viewpoint captures everything and that different perspectives yield different knowledge. A historical event is simultaneously a sequence of facts (empiricism), a narrative construction (hermeneutics), a site of trauma (psychoanalysis), and a tool of power (critique). Multiperspectivism doesn't try to synthesize these into one master perspective—it holds them in tension, moving between them as understanding requires. It's binocular vision for knowing.

"You want one true account of what happened between us. Epistemological Multiperspectivism says: there's my truth, your truth, the truth of what was actually said, the truth of what was felt, and the truth that emerges in therapy ten years from now. All are real; none is final. Learn to hold multiple perspectives or learn to be wrong."

by Abzugal February 23, 2026

Infinite Multiperspectivism

The view that any phenomenon requires an infinite number of perspectives for complete understanding, and since infinite perspectives are impossible, complete understanding is impossible. But incomplete understanding can still be deep, useful, beautiful. Infinite Multiperspectivism embraces the impossibility of total knowledge as liberation: you'll never get it all, so stop trying. Instead, collect as many perspectives as you can, hold them in tension, move between them, and appreciate that the phenomenon exceeds any finite set of views. Reality is infinite; your grasp is finite. That's not failure—that's the situation.

"You want the full truth about what happened between us? Infinite Multiperspectivism says: there's my truth, your truth, the truth of everyone who saw it, the truth of the security camera, the truth of God if God existed—infinite truths. You'll never have them all. But you can have mine and yours, and that's enough to start."

by Dumu The Void February 24, 2026

Scientific Multiperspectivism

The methodological commitment to studying phenomena from multiple scientific perspectives, recognizing that no single discipline, method, or scale captures everything. A complete understanding of a forest requires ecology, chemistry, poetry, economics, indigenous knowledge. Scientific Multiperspectivism doesn't try to synthesize these into one master perspective—it holds them in productive tension, moving between scales and methods as questions demand. It's science that has learned humility from its own complexity.

"You're studying consciousness with only fMRI? Scientific Multiperspectivism says: add phenomenology (what it feels like), psychology (how it behaves), evolutionary biology (why it evolved), and maybe some Buddhist philosophy. The brain scan shows something real—just not everything. Multiple perspectives or multiple failures."

by Dumu The Void February 24, 2026