Missed Opportunity (A Work-Related Post)

From CNET. They're notorious at dropping content quickly, so here's the link, but here's also a screengrab.

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Ah, busy.  The enemy of innovation, creativity and the ability to react in a nimble fashion.  I don't know whether to be comforted that it even infects Google, or scared.

How are you?  Busy?  Is it the right stuff?  Or is it just the most urgent?  What would happen if you took a day, a half-day, an hour and didn't do any of the stuff that was making you so busy?

What would you do?