It's the sheer number of simultaneous but different conversations that makes it especially brutalizing.
This seems plausible. One thing I sometimes do (I'm doing it now) is to lock down my switching. I worked all morning on work stuff, now I'm switching over here for a bit and talking to you guys, and I will then switch away for the rest of the night. It's fragmentation, but not terrible.
Hard to be disciplined about it, though. Easy for me to go off the rails.
this territory is moderated