Time Series Part 1: Is There a Time Famine? - Roundtable

We begin with a summary of the podcast and conclude that, with notable exceptions, this sense of a time famine is misplaced. It is a subjective, not objective, experience. Topics explored in the Roundtable include: the question of whether children in the digital age are being inducted earlier into 'continuous partial attention; the need for empty spaces to foster creativity; the problem of high productivity as a badge of honour and self importance; how it is better to think of effectiveness rather than how hard we work; expanding the notion of productitivity to include non-work; the relationship of self-esteem to these issues of productivity; the conflation of the value of Being and the value of Doing; and the importance of 'unimproving'.