Oliver Burkeman’s book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, is wedged on the bookshelves between other “productivity” guides, but this is not a step-by-step assault on how to force your calendar into submission. Burkeman takes the backdoor on “getting more done” and shows us why squeezing more efficiency into our lives is bad practice. We’re shown the finite quality of our days and how the limited amount of time we’ve been given forces us to realize that we can’t do everything. To manage time like a mortal, we have to be okay with doing many things poorly or not at all.
This is the book recommendation from my weekly newsletter on April 3, 2024.
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