busyness
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I think of an anecdote in sociologist Liah Greenfeld’s prescient 2005 paper, “When the Sky Is the Limit: Busyness in Contemporary American Society.”
From Slate • Aug. 3, 2024
Image: Google Area Busyness is an expansion of the information Google Maps already provides about the crowdedness of public transit and the popularity of specific stores and locations throughout the week.
From The Verge • Nov. 16, 2021
Busyness has increased for some, while others, for whom slowing down is a foreign concept, have had idleness forced on them.
From The Guardian • May 7, 2020
Busyness is a virtue, so people are terrified of hearing they may have empty time, as Time Kreider wrote in “The ‘Busy’ Trap.”
From Slate • Mar. 24, 2014
Busyness is all bunk, of course; made for duffers.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
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