Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock (THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER)

“I’m really interested in problems that feel personal and are experienced personally, but tie into much larger historical and structural forces,” Odell said.

The freedom-of-time approach sounds right to us, because we think of time as money, which is to say, a fungible resource. Anything that gets in the way of our freely allocating our time doesn’t just get on our nerves; it prevents us from coming up with the most efficient way of using our time. In the language of the marketplace, it’s irrational.