Time Confetti and the Broken Promise of Leisure

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December 17, 2020

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Time Confetti and the Broken Promise of Leisure

The autonomy paradox: "We adopt mobile technologies to gain autonomy over when and how long we work, yet, ironically, we end up working all the time. Long blocks of free time we used to enjoy are now interrupted constantly by our smart watches, phones, tablets, and laptops. This situation taxes us cognitively, and fragments our leisure time in a way that makes it hard to use this time for something that will relieve stress or make us happy. Researchers call this phenomenon time confetti, which amounts to little bits of seconds and minutes lost to unproductive multitasking. Each bit alone seems not very bad. Collectively, though, all that confetti adds up to something more pernicious than you might expect." { read more }

Be The Change

How do you relate to the notions of time poverty, time affluence, time confetti, and the autonomy paradox? What helps you be intentional with your time?

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