India, March 13 -- We have companies today the size of early kingdoms. A king never met all his subjects, but a CEO's door must always be open.

Your phone likely pinged at least once while you read those lines. Meanwhile, there are about 400 unopened emails, on average, in every inbox.

There's a reason you feel tired or overwhelmed so much of the time.

There simply isn't enough time or opportunity to do all the things we have now been primed to "want" to do.

A nagging feeling of inadequacy then creeps in. There is the sense, at least occasionally, that one is not being the best version of oneself, in one's various roles (parent, partner, co-worker, caregiver).

How did we begin to hurtle this much?

Some of it can be traced to messagi...