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Re:Ask HN: How to manage focus in a stop and go workflow by NikhilVerma on Thursday August 13, 2015 @02:45AM (#10052594)
I don't have the same situation as you but generally when I am faced with a situation like this I often end up doing two high focus things one after another.

So when your query is running for 5 mins you can switch to something of a similar nature (another query perhaps?).

Re:Ask HN: How to manage focus in a stop and go workflow by helvetican on Friday August 14, 2015 @12:26AM (#10058620)
I agree that having two streams would optimize my time, but my problem is with the switching. Regardless of to what, the coupling and de-coupling is an overhead for me.