A Maria Ercília me mandou esta pérola e achei bacana repetir aqui.
Trecho do artigo publicado no The Atlantic falando sobre multitasking, vulgo “alt+tabbing”. 
“Researchers asked a group of 20-somethings to sort index cards in two trials, once in silence and once while simultaneously listening for specific tones in a series of randomly presented sounds. The subjects’ brains coped with the additional task by shifting responsibility from the hippocampus — which stores and recalls information — to the striatum, which takes care of rote, repetitive activities. Thanks to this switch, the subjects managed to sort the cards just as well with the musical distraction — but they had a much harder time remembering what, exactly, they’d been sorting once the experiment was over.
Even worse, certain studies find that multitasking boosts the level of stress-related hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline and wears down our systems through biochemical friction, prematurely aging us. In the short term, the confusion, fatigue, and chaos merely hamper our ability to focus and analyze, but in the long term, they may cause it to atrophy.”
Li este post enquanto jantava, trocava de roupa e conversava com a digníssima no Skype. Coincidência?
eu tbm li este post, enquanto checava emails, ligacoes no skype e atualizações do twitter, antes de me preparar para começar o dia aqui no trabalho…
tbm estou achando muita coincidência..
:/
ôh vida!