This fascinating NY Times article show that scientists claim that “juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think and behave. Our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information.”

Further: “These play to a primitive impulse to respond to immediate opportunities and threats. The stimulation provokes excitement — a dopamine squirt — that researchers say can be addictive. In its absence, people feel bored.”

Have you experienced this? Does the distraction of too much technology inflict nicks and cuts on your creative edge and sense of peace? Or do you simply see Facebook, Twitter, texting, calling—and, yes, blogging—as simply another tool that enhances your effectiveness, while still staying focused on what matters?