Comments on: Open Thread: Can You Live Without Urgency?

By: Strong Euro Weak Dollar

Strong Euro Weak Dollar — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:34:09 +0000

Of course (we can live without urgency).
That is what we did and do for centuries.

Urgency –and multitasking- is the evil resulted from american work culture gone global.

But, apart from different attitudes towards life, urgently doing things rarely makes them properly done.
In Europe we say “even God has to wait for sugar to melt”. You think everything is able to be done “yesterday”.

After 30 years of craziness, hearing Americans revaluing urgency is encouraging.

By: Scott Blitstein

Scott Blitstein — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:15:34 +0000

I think that there is a time and place for urgency. Being able to recognize when it is appropriate and respond accordingly is critical, as is doing the opposite.

For me, constant urgency would be toxic.

By: zeitgeiber

zeitgeiber — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:10:19 +0000

I have to agree, especially with the blackberry comment. Making yourself always available just trains people to bother you at inappropriate times.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:35:53 +0000

Hm… first comment kinda cuts to the chase.

There’s nothing about working on the web that dictate urgency. In the vast majority of cases running around doing 18 projects, having time to eat lunch and sleeping with your iBerry* under your pillow is a sign of poor planning and insecurity, not success.

*ohh, no one sue me, ok?

By: Khürt Williams

Khürt Williams — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:15:38 +0000

Urgency is crap. Everyone behaves as though lives hang in the balance.