This Week - Sep 20, 2013

So much of this is about out-doing each other. To say that “I’m busier than you are” means I’m more important, or that my time is more valuable, or that I am “winning” at some never-finished rat race to Inbox Zero.

— Please Stop Complaining About How Busy You Are (Harvard Business Review)

So much of modern life has been 'media-tized.' Tourism too often involves seeing 'in person' places that you’ve already seen first “virtually” on the TV or Internet. In my own case, I had seen a thousand images of Athens before I ever set foot there.

— Authenticity, A Moving Target (Sean Oneill)