The Business Dad Paradox, Miles’s Law, Deliberate Ignorance, & More
Alex Brogan
Most professionals chase productivity gains to reclaim time. The irony: they use that time to work more. This is the Business Dad Paradox — technology liberates us from inefficiency only to chain us to expanded expectations. We optimize ourselves into a corner.
The pattern appears everywhere. Email promised instant communication, so we check it constantly. Video calls eliminated travel time, so we schedule more meetings. Project management tools streamlined workflows, so we manage more projects simultaneously. Each efficiency gain gets absorbed by scope creep, not life improvement.