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Existential Time Management with Oliver Burkeman
Minds and Mics
The Importance Trap
Trying to manage time doesn't work, it's almost that it ends up backfiring. So and even making you worse off. We live in a world of infinite inputs, so if you're trying to deal with all the little stuff that could come across your desk, it's going to never end. It's this famous old observation that the reward for good time management is more work. If you sort of build a perfectly optimised personal system, it will naturally attract more inputs until it's overwhelmed again.
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