Let them be bored. They can be bored outside in the heat or they can be bored inside in the air conditioning but boundaries and guidelines will state that they cannot bother you. They also cannot consistently bother you, hoping you will find something for them to do. Explain that you have your own day to navigate, and that you are not their activities director.

Technology created and has encouraged a world of now.  AI has quickly closed any gaps that were left.  Sure it can remove the mundane tasks and disguise the application as efficiency.  We want to be faster. Better.  Than everyone else.  But why? Does faster actually make us better?   At what point did sitting in the uncomfortable places of the in between become such a negative space?  One could argue it is that friction that we feel, the “rub” of the in between of having to read, research, quietly think…that it is in this space that we build incredibly resilient, empathetic, connected humans.