“Being busy” has become currency

Are people truly that busy, or is it now just something you must say all the time?

Ted Bauer
24 min readOct 10, 2022

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Onboarding

How does “woke” relate to “work?”

Yesterday I put together a deep dive on burnout, and the causes and reasonings therein. I think in a general sense, there’s definitely a lot of burnout and exhaustion globally right now (especially in US/UK/etc.), and the notion of stress and burnout must be tied in some ways to the idea of everyone being so busy, right? Makes sense. But is there a bigger picture around “busy?” Seems so. Maybe we should spend a few…

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Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.