I’m Busy

“I’m busy.” This is the answer I get most often from people when I ask them “how are you?” It’s quickly replacing “fine” or “good” as the go-to answer for most people. It’s their way of saying they don’t have time to talk to you.

Technology has made large parts of life significantly more efficient, but instead of allowing ourselves to have more margin, we just fill in the cracks with more stuff. This is no knock on technology, it’s a knock on us for lacking the discipline to know when enough...