The Convenience Culture

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Yiu: Convenience culture is the idea that you can remove friction from your life and still have more time to do other things. But in fact, it's not saving any time at all but just creating space for others' priorities. Yiu also talks about why journalists should transcribe interviews instead of writing them out themselves.

Oliver Burkeman is a journalist and author of the book 4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. In this episode we discuss:

- The time management myths that are holding you back - Practical strategies that help you focus on what matters most- The true cost of convenience culture and what you lose

We also talk about how writing the book changed Oliver’s relationship to time, the path to producing original creative work and the issues with self-help culture.