Before industrialization, people didn't think of time as a thing separate to them. In the mediaeval period, for example, you milked the cows when the cows needed milking and harvested the crops when the crops needed harvesting. This kind of orientation towards time is probably much more what we would call a sort of peaceful and calm than in today's world.
Why does it always feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day to get work done? How did we come to see time as a resource we could manipulate and exploit? Why does achieving “inbox zero” come with bragging rights? And how has the belief that we can command and control time totally warped not only our personal lives, but also our working lives?
In today's episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans start to tease apart a few of the brain-expanding questions with guest Oliver Burkeman, the best-selling author of Four Thousand Weeks. Together, they explore what we don’t talk about when we talk about modern time management.
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