> * Maybe this whole board is just one giant programmatic timesink meant to waste your time and discourage you from doing something.* As a kid I read a science

> * Maybe this whole board is just one giant programmatic timesink meant to waste your time and discourage you from doing something.* As a kid I read a science-fiction short story to that effect --- a successful scientist discovers that he's being drawn into more and more university-committee work, etc., and thus has less and less time for his real work. He detects signs that "someone" (aliens?) is doing this intentionally, to all kinds of knowledge workers. Wish I could remember the title and author.