Personally, I usually only want to know enough about a given game, franchise or whatever to remove my ignorance and understand what it's about, how it is different, how it is good (or bad), etc. If it employs new, soon-to-be-standard industry tech, then that's another reason to give it a look. Other than that - and I am…
I wasn't so much talking about multi-tasking (even though that works for some people) you can still be pin-point focused on singular tasks but you need to be able estimate how long the tasks will take you, then stack those tasks in an order and get it done. This is really important if you end up wearing a few hats, like…