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I’m Not Sorry for My Delay - The Atlantic

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Today’s norms of responsiveness are ridiculous. We shouldn’t apologize for failing to meet them.

At first, being reachable all the time felt good. To professionals who started using BlackBerries 20 years ago to conduct business on the go, it registered as a superpower. “They felt like masters of the universe,” Melissa Mazmanian, an informatics professor at UC Irvine who studied the devices’ uptake in the early 2000s, told me. But as more people got mobile devices, responding to messages anytime became the norm among co-workers as well as friends and loved ones. The superpower morphed into an obligation. This is an evolution that Mazmanian refers to as the “ spiral of expectations .” When

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