Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman on time management for a finite life, roughly four thousand weeks long
Burkeman opens his 2021 book with arithmetic. A long life runs to about four thousand weeks. From there he argues against systems that promise to fit everything in, and for choosing what to neglect on purpose. Chapters cover the anxiety of an unfinished list, patience as a trainable skill, and why getting faster tends to create more demand rather than more free time. The 3-3-3 daily structure that circulates online comes out of his writing around it.
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Calls Oliver Burkeman's book one of his favorite non-fiction reads of the last few years, and takes the 3-3-3 daily structure from him: three hours on the most important thing, three short tasks, three maintenance jobs.
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