I’ve been struck by the paradox that many of us feel busy —as busy as we’ve ever been—but technically humans are the least busy they’ve been in centuries.

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What has actually changed is the number of choices available to us. In a previous life you might be born to a baker, and you’d be the baker’s apprentice, so you’d work 12 hours that day and go to bed.

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