After having a conversation with a group of friends, regarding our belief that technology is contributing to “head overload” and “mass distraction”, I received this article via email (yes, yet another in my packed inbox of digital information overload). Don’t get me wrong, I love technology. But at some point technology WILL begin to have a diminishing affect as our ability to process does have a limit. I believe we are closer than we think to finding out what that limit is.

What follows is the forwarded article written by Tom McGrath for Mens Health. Would love to hear your thoughts on it as well.

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Crazy at work? It may just be office ADD
How to deal with communication overload and clear your head
By Tom McGrath, Mens Health
Updated: 8:03 a.m. ET Oct 9, 2007

How bad is it for Adam Campbell? This is how bad: Before he can send an e-mail, he has to delete one.

“Arggh,” he grunts, staring at the error message on his computer. Adam has just finished composing an e-mail to his boss, postponing a 3 p.m. conference call.

But Adam’s mailbox is so stuffed with messages that this new missive refuses to go anywhere. His fingers now stomp over the keys as he deletes some old (and useless? let’s hope so!) e-mail. Finally, the message zooms off into cyberspace.