The No-Time Problem
It’s not often you find a book review turning out to be a great article in itself even as it says the book itself is average! But that’s exactly what Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow managed to do in her review of Judy Wajcman ’s book, Pressed for Time . The theme of the book is about the “crazy busy” lives most of us feel we lead, what Tuhus-Dubrow describes as: “What changed? Was it just that then I was a kid, and now I have a kid? Time no longer seems unlimited: then I had possibilities; now I have responsibilities.” Of course, if we are perfectly honest about it, she reminds us that we should check whether we really had more time back then or whether we are “just misremembering it all through a haze of nostalgia”. Or if: “When we complain about how busy we are, it may be sincere, but it is also a kind of humblebrag.” (Humblebrag. I love that word. I’d never heard it until then but its meaning is so obvious, isn’t it?) Some of the contributing factors to this feeling include ...