Erin Marie Furtak, The Legacy of Constant Disruptions:
Those large-scale interruptions will affect our careers for years to come. Moves by colleges and universities to delay tenure clocks have acknowledged the damage that’s been done. At the same time, those of us who are both professors and parents have also faced thousands of tiny little interruptions. Seemingly inconsequential in the moment, those tiny interruptions add up and can interfere in a big way with our writing and research.
Once upon a time I used to think the same thing about those seemingly inconsequential, tiny little interruptions that added up… at the office.