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Microsoft says meeting time has TRIPLED since 2020: typical workers are spending 57% of their time communicating [meetings, calls] with others: 'Today, knowledge work is, quantitatively speaking, less about creating new things than it is about talking about those things.’ https://t.co/aueW97bOrg
is this desirable? What caused the increase? How can we reduce it (assuming undesirable)?
"Desire nothing for thyself, seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. Man's future and thy own fate must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for anything. If it be God's will to prove thee in the duties of marriage, be ready to fulfill His will."
Leo Tolstoy • War and Peace
A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences.
Gene Wolfe • The Fifth Head of Cerberus: Three Novellas
find that relief in constant motion, which is the hope of all active minds when invaded by distress.
George MacDonald • Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women
Dickens, The Curiosity Shop
“We are all going to the play, or coming home from it”
Such were the thoughts—if to visions so imperfect and undefined as those which wandered through his enfeebled brain, the term can be applied—which
Charles Dickens • Nicholas Nickleby: By Charles Dickens : Illustrated
Dostoevsky said, “if man ceases to believe in God, he does not believe in nothing, he believes in anything.”
Ideologies, science, machines, entertainments: all are meant to take the place of meaningful and purposeful action in the spirit.
https://theorthodoxnationalist.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/the-end.pdf
(Matthew Rafael Johnson)
'It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always says in Turkey, ven they cuts the wrong man's head off.
CHARLES DICKENS • THE PICKWICK PAPERS (illustrated, complete, and unabridged)
It is a commonplace that men are all agreed in using symbols, and all differ about the meaning of the symbols.