Oliver Burkeman – Time Management for Mortals
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Oliver Burkeman – Time Management for Mortals
“Recently, in a daily organ, a battle raged round the question [of] whether a woman can exist nicely in the country on £85 a year,” Bennett wrote. “I have [also] seen an essay, ‘How to live on eight shillings a week.’ But I have never seen an essay, ‘How to live on twenty-four hours a day.’” The joke—to spell it out—is how absurd it is that anyone
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Admittedly, it’s not entirely our own fault that we approach our finite time in such a perversely instrumental and future-focused way. Powerful external pressures push us in this direction, too, because we exist inside an economic system that is instrumentalist to its core. One way of understanding capitalism, in fact, is as a giant machine for ins... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Or perhaps your problem isn’t being too busy but insufficiently busy, languishing in a dull job,
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
The technologies we use to try to “get on top of everything” always fail us, in the end, because they increase the size of the “everything” of which we’re trying to get on top.