The kind of productivity our culture glamorizes is impossible to achieve. Efficiency attracts further responsibility, tasks beget tasks, and goals continue to expand.

We will never get everything done. So the thing to do, instead, is to come to peace with that reality. Even more, to build slack into the schedule. Not to “find” time for nothingness and leisure, but to create it. To protect it.

The treadmill has no end. If we’re wise, we’ll learn to step off of it regularly.