If you slacked off your attention for even a moment, you could stall the entire line — forcing workers into an unnatural combination of boredom and c… - Cal Newport

A lack of time, therefore, isn’t enough to explain why so many students feel overwhelmed. So what does explain this phenomenon? The answer, as it turns out, has much more to do with how we work than what we’re trying to accomplish.

I felt like I was stretching to convince the world that my work was interesting, yet no one cared.

Busyness as Proxy for Productivity: In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many knowledge workers turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing lots of stuff in a visible manner.