> The very idea that, once work hours were over, no one could get hold of you—via email, text, Slack, whatever—is completely alien to contemporary young people,

> The very idea that, once work hours were over, no one could get hold of you—via email, text, Slack, whatever—is completely alien to contemporary young people, who never let their cellphones leave their hands. It would have been alien to my dad, who not only had a cell phone well before 2002, but also had pagers prior to that because being an anesthetist means you take call. The cell phone was better because it meant he didn't have to find a payphone when the pager alerted, especially if the cell phone was small enough to carry around as opposed to being a bag phone.