Yeah, fair point! Since writing this I’ve gotten feedback from a few people who think their lives have too much Slack, so I was clearly over-generalising from my own experience and social context.
Though, one supporting point. I think someone can both spend a bunch of time watching TV etc and lack Slack. I’m imagining an archetype of person who both feels always busy and behind, but also has poor executive function and has a lot of aversions, and motivation and procrastination problems (I can think of several friends in this category). Someone who clearly is not actually optimising their time for productivity, but feels overwhelmed. So they don’t give themselves permission to use Slack, take time off, etc, even though they implicitly use a bunch of it on procrastination.
Yeah, fair point! Since writing this I’ve gotten feedback from a few people who think their lives have too much Slack, so I was clearly over-generalising from my own experience and social context.
Though, one supporting point. I think someone can both spend a bunch of time watching TV etc and lack Slack. I’m imagining an archetype of person who both feels always busy and behind, but also has poor executive function and has a lot of aversions, and motivation and procrastination problems (I can think of several friends in this category). Someone who clearly is not actually optimising their time for productivity, but feels overwhelmed. So they don’t give themselves permission to use Slack, take time off, etc, even though they implicitly use a bunch of it on procrastination.