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Change Your Perception of Time and Meaning with Oliver Burkeman

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The Deep Causes of Our Time Troubles

Time is referred to so often as a resource that people don't even have awareness of the fact that there's a way to view or have a relationship to time other than being thought of as a resource. In one sense, that desire to sort of get on top of that is just the sort of deep human desire not to have to die. And then, you know, slightly more cynically, capitalism especially has this interest in keeping us always on this treadmill and trying to break through our most basic limitations.

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