This need not be taken as an argument for abandoning all future planning whatsoever, but it serves as a warning not to strive too ardently for any si… - Oliver Burkeman

it becomes a lot more intuitive to project your thoughts about your life into an imagined future, leaving you anxiously wondering if things will unfold as you want them to. Soon, your sense of self-worth gets completely bound up with how you're using time: it stops being merely the water in which you swim and turns into something you feel you need to dominate or control, if you're to avoid feeling guilty, panicked, or overwhelmed.

Think of it as "existential overwhelm": the modern world provides an inexhaustible supply of things that seem worth doing, and so there arises an inevitable and unbridgeable gap between what you'd ideally like to do and what you actually can do.

The technologies we use to try to "get on top of everything" always fail us, in the end, because they increase the size of the "everything" of which we're trying to get on top.