This is a fine article if you already believe that busyness is bad. The trouble is that busy people are, by definition, people who think being busy is a feature not a bug.
For example, we can spin the wheel and play bug-or-feature:
> And when you start sounding like an appliance, it makes it hard to connect with you.
Bug or feature? Depends on your personality, depends on who's connecting with you.
> This is one of the easiest outs for stuff I don’t want to do.
Bug or feature?
Another sentiment I see in TFA and the comments is that saying "I'm busy" is a euphemism for "I don't care about you" so people shouldn't say it. But this analysis assumes that the heaviest rock is for a person not to be rude. I suspect that in many cases that if you remove the method for a polite brush-off, you could get an impolite brush-off instead. Nothing has been done to address the underlying motivation behind saying "I'm busy".
If you find yourself in the author's shoes being frustrated by how other people are too busy for you, I might recommend reading some sales books and figuring out how to make proposals that are more agreeable to others. Writing a blog post about how other people need to change will not help you solve that problem.
For example, we can spin the wheel and play bug-or-feature:
> And when you start sounding like an appliance, it makes it hard to connect with you.
Bug or feature? Depends on your personality, depends on who's connecting with you.
> This is one of the easiest outs for stuff I don’t want to do.
Bug or feature?
Another sentiment I see in TFA and the comments is that saying "I'm busy" is a euphemism for "I don't care about you" so people shouldn't say it. But this analysis assumes that the heaviest rock is for a person not to be rude. I suspect that in many cases that if you remove the method for a polite brush-off, you could get an impolite brush-off instead. Nothing has been done to address the underlying motivation behind saying "I'm busy".
If you find yourself in the author's shoes being frustrated by how other people are too busy for you, I might recommend reading some sales books and figuring out how to make proposals that are more agreeable to others. Writing a blog post about how other people need to change will not help you solve that problem.