The Quest for the Single App to Do Everything in Your Life

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"I'm always going to be tinkering with my system. It's not going to approach a kind of perfect final form," he says. "As long as it doesn't completely obliterate my actual productive output then fine, you know." The quest to tame this stuff is ultimately self-defeating and maybe we should just recognize this and stop trying to solve it technologically,. He adds: "My way of finding peace with an interest in productivity stuff has not been to walk away from ever having anything to do with that stuff"

All of us have too much to do and too little time to do it in. Yet the more we try to increase our productivity, the less happy and productive we seem to be. Why, and what’s the solution? This week Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks, Time Management for Mortals, joins Adam to discuss how to break the cycle of productivity shame with his radical new approach to looking at time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.