Article: "Divide the solution you came up with into small chunks". The idea is to use less of your short term memory for the work; by applying this approach to your working memory, you'll have a few slots left over for office conversations.
An analogous strategy is for programs to hold less data in RAM so you can dedicate a portion of the CPU's RAM to keeping track of shopping lists and baseball statistics for your neighbor.
That is assuming the everyone has the same ability with working memory - its quite obvious that one of the diagnostic's for neurodiversity is poor short term memory - and guess what industry's have more neurodiverse people?
