Oliver Burkeman. Four thousand weeks : time management for mortals. Allen Lane Canada. Toronto: 2021.

Now is all you ever get.

Fascinating exploration of meaning to apply when managing our time. Author includes an appendix summarizing "10 tools for embracing your finitude".

Book includes

• 5 questions to ask about how you are currently spending your time
• 10 tools for embracing your finitude
• afterword on getting doing

Interview:

• with Brave New Work

Interesting ideas shared:

• Attention is life
• We are time
• Fika
• Atelic and telic activities
• Possibility shock
• Cosmic insignificance therapy
• Patience principles
• Strategic underachievement
• Open and closed to-do lists
• Done list
• Fixed-volume productivity and serializing [appear familiar?]
• Novelty in the mundane
• Let things be as they are

William James, quoted in book:

As each passing year converts... experience into automatic routing, the days and weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to contentless units, and the years grow hollow and collapse