- Working title
- Five Things About Looking Busy
- Format
- Five Things
- Category
- Work
- Subject tags
- Jobs, Tiredness, Work Confidence
- Core thought
- Looking busy can become easier than doing the work that would actually move things on.
- Real-world trigger
- A day spent moving between tabs, notes, emails and dashboards without finishing the one task that mattered.
- Specific detail to use
- The same document is opened three times, renamed once and still not used.
- Discomfort or tension
- Work avoidance, tiredness and the small shame of knowing the performance has fooled nobody useful.
- Why it fits I Said
- It suits I Said because the thought is candid and self-recognising without needing a full monologue.
- Output direction
- Five separate angles, each blunt and short.