One of my favorite articles on the social custom of bragging about how busy you are http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-trap/ http://opinio

One of my favorite articles on the social custom of bragging about how busy you are http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-trap/ http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-tra... "Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day."