131. The Time of Your Life with Oliver Burkeman
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Is There a Limit to Time?
"Time is so existential for us, and how our failed manipulations of it are related to our own relationship with our inevitable demise," he says. "If we can't intellectually convince ourselves that we are going to get away with actually not having die, then we can at least do the sort of functional equivalent - which adds up to an infinite amount in the time that we do have." The author also talks about why traditional time management is garbage. 'It's always going to be the people with the least power in that situation who bear the greatest burdens of the demands for greater efficiency'
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