Is Anyone Else's Life as Stupidly Complicated by Digital "Shadow Work" as Mine Is?
We seem to have entered a world of anti-leisure and anti-productivity in which unpaid digital "shadow work" obliterates our leisure and productivity.
Is your life as stupidly complicated as mine is? Of course it is unless you've withdrawn from all engagement with the digital realm and all devices containing digital components.
To rephrase the question: is anyone else a boiled frog like I am? Yes, a frog slowly boiled by the steadily increasing burdens of the "shadow work" required to maintain a life t…
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