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Oliver Burkeman – Time Management for Mortals

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Is It Boredom?

"It's hard to think of anything worth doing that doesn't take kind of effort and patience," he says. "I have a completely untested theory that impatience in all sorts of physical settings, gets worse when those same people are accustomed to not having to wait two seconds for the ap." The closer technology brings us to the cusp of feeling like we are the gods of our time, it seems to be reminded of all the ways in which we still aren't em so, you know, you get this utterly bizarre situation where the world speeds up and gets more and more efficient.

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