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Four Thousand Weeks

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A tribute to the book by Oliver Burkeman, an exploration of time management in the face of human finitude, and addressing the anxiety of “getting everything done.”

Four Thousand Weeks We live our lives week by week Yet a week feels frustratingly limited The pressure to be more productive and fit ever-increasing quantities of activity into a stubbornly non-increasing quantity of time leads to productivity anxiety, shriveled attention spans, and burn-out. And there are alarmingly few of them You would feel less anxious about wasting an evening doom-scrolling if you had an infinite amount of them. Somehow either doing too much or too little can create the sense of wasting time. Despite all this activity we sense there are important and fulfilling ways we co

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