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Everyone Is Pretending to Be Busy

Everyone Is Pretending to Be Busy

How Fake Urgency Became a Way of Life

Urgency has become a performance and everybody is required to give it. On manufactured busyness, and the work that does not happen because of it.

By Julian Pike

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