In recent months, I've been working on improving how I manage my time, focusing on the important things, and spending time with people that matter to me. Here are three things I came across that put things in perspective:
The Busy Trap
[...] 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. Life is too short to be busy.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-trap/?smid=tw-share
We’re creating a culture of distraction
[...] How many times, guys, have you been barked at by your wife because instead of giving full attention to what she was saying, you were looking at your phone. What’s the message that’s getting sent? “There is something more important than you and it’s not here in this room.”
http://joekraus.com/were-creating-a-culture-of-distraction
Alone Together
[...] We expect more from technology and less from each other. We are now seduced to believe that online interactions are real relationships. We are lonely but fearful of intimacy. Digital connections and the sociable robot may offer the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. Our networked life allows us to hide from each other, even as we are tethered to each other. We’d rather text than talk.
http://www.amazon.com/Alone-Together-Expect-Technology-Other/dp/1452631913
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