Justin Kan's startup Exec has been busy over the last few months, adding a new housecleaning service to its on-demand task management service.
It's interesting to compare Homejoy, which (despite the possible expansion discussed above) has been focused on cleaning since its public launch, with more general on-demand task services like Exec and TaskRabbit.
Attacking the enterprise is hard in this space and yet there is an enormous invisible economy out there for on-demand tasks (as Task Rabbit and others have shown).
Similar to the way companies like TaskRabbit and Lyft are leveraging the workforce and labor to provide value-added services to consumers ( i.e. ridesharing and on-demand tasks at a reasonable pricepoint), Zirtual is trying to take advantage of the online workforce in the executive assistant space.
Empiricists about language acquisition have ably identified a number of points of weakness in the Chomskyan case, but have only just begun to take on the demanding task of developing develop non-nativist learning theories, whether for language or anything much else.
Of course, RTI is expected to deliver its product on demand, another task made possible by the Internet.
Performance on a cognitively demanding task, traditionally considered to rely on ventral stream functions, was more related to reading accuracy.
Moreover, schizotypal subjects performed better, at a trend level, than controls on the cognitively demanding task.
In addition, accuracy on an attention-demanding task may be impacted if a child is simultaneously suppressing.
In his book by the same name, Newport writes, "Deep work is to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task, and shallow work describes activities that are more logistical in nature, that don't require intense concentration".
Then, they viewed and discussed two different video clips, both of which represented high-level student thinking as students worked on this cognitively demanding task in the same classroom.
