How Busy Bandwagon and Infinity Pools Are Stealing Your Time
00:00:00.000 | these two important things, busy bandwagon, infinity pools.
00:00:03.600 | Let's talk about what those are
00:00:05.060 | and how they're probably taking away our time.
00:00:07.680 | - So the busy bandwagon is where
00:00:09.360 | these defaults show up in culture.
00:00:12.420 | So the expectation that you say yes to every meeting,
00:00:15.880 | that you should constantly monitor your email
00:00:18.200 | and respond right away, that you should be busy,
00:00:21.080 | that being busy is a sign that you are a successful person.
00:00:25.360 | And I think we all find ourselves either on the bandwagon
00:00:28.720 | or wishing we were on the bandwagon
00:00:30.320 | at some point in our lives.
00:00:31.640 | The infinity pools, that's kind of our term
00:00:34.560 | for the places where defaults show up in our technology
00:00:38.960 | and in our media and content.
00:00:41.320 | Anytime there's an infinite source of content,
00:00:44.280 | there's always water in the pool.
00:00:45.420 | You can always jump back in.
00:00:46.760 | The bad news is that those are really irresistible.
00:00:49.420 | They're very effectively designed and engineered
00:00:53.520 | and optimized to be irresistible.