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Death to Productivity with Oliver Burkeman

Factually! with Adam Conover

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The Liberating Thing About Human Finitude

There is this kind of, there is this response to the idea of human finitude. And I've got nothing against people spending their lives doing extraordinary things. But if you can sort of let go of that even a little bit and see that there are always going to be too many things to do, you're going to die with a really long to do list. There'salways going to be a million more things that matter than you get a chance to do.

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