Oliver Burkeman - The JOY of Missing Out
The Imperfects
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The Productivity Geek
I was a huge sucker for every kind of time management system, ways of dividing up the day. I still am on some level, productivity geek, but now in recovery or with greater degree of consciousness about what I'm up to. The more I read the book, the less terrifying that became, which I guess is the point of the book. We know our time is limited, but we don't know how much of it will actually get. You just find yourself in time as it were, and you're permanently sort of vulnerable to events. And this is a really amazing way of thinking about it. It made a big impact on me. Not that you can't plan and make strategies
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