Day 14: Limits are part of the duty

Have a think: Limits are part of the duty

The walk: Always-on systems teach people to treat attention as an infinite resource. Seneca’s writing on time begins from the opposite fact: life is spent in portions, and waste does not become virtue because it looks industrious.

The thought: Jethro’s warning is practical and communal. Overextension wears away the worker and the people waiting on the work. A limit is not abandonment when it makes service sustainable, shareable, and honest.

A task for today: Remove one needless deadline, interruption, or expectation of immediate response. Delegate or narrow one task before it becomes somebody’s exhaustion.

Sources:
Exodus · Seneca · The labor movement’s eight-hour demand · Sabbath traditions