Too many people project their own "busy-ness" (especially in terms of answering phone calls and emails anytime, anywhere) as an outward measure of their irreplaceability. It's like saying all the time to the people who happen to be around you – you see, I'm constantly needed somewhere else, by other people… It's a high school level of social levereging – i.e. total BS!

In the end, however, each day has only 24 hours, and when those hours are gone, they are gone forever. Moreover, you have only so many days to live, and each day that passes brings you one step closer to the cold embrace of death.

Starting companies (or investing in them) is hard work. But stress, however justified, does not help your productivity. It's better to compartmentalize and make sure that you leave enough of your time and energy to actually live your life.

The best way to find happiness is not to defer it to a far-off, continually receding future, but to seek it in the here and now.

While I was reading this post, I checked my email 3 times. And then Twitter too. What can I say, I am crazy ADD this way. Oh and yeah I was working on the product power point – continuous partial attention. You know how that goes.

I am joking of course. And truthfully, I am trying to control stress by exercising, but I can't be off the grid, at least does not seem this way.

The major point that I was making is that most of us are not going to be strong enough to resist the pace and the stress. We will be pulled in. Me, my wife, my dad, inevitably. The environment that demands that we process more information faster is causing stress.

Now, I am really glad that you are able to hold the wall up and to resists. Kudos to you, thats brilliant and I am impressed

How true about choice. We are so lucky to have them.