A Failed Soviet Experiment Offers A Warning To Today’s Burnout Generation

There is an alternative: the unfashionable but powerful notion of letting time use you, approaching life not as an opportunity to implement your predetermined plans for success but as a matter of responding to the needs of your place and your moment in history. I want to be clear that I’m not suggesting our troubles with time are somehow all in the

nepreryvka (“continuous workweek”), weeks would now be five days long, and days off would be staggered. You might rest on day one, while your spouse rested on day three and your parents on day four. The idea was that this would let factories run continuously, with the side benefit of preventing church attendance or family gatherings. Even though th

“Productivity advice promises the ability to extend the capacity of an hour to encompass more work, more production , than it could otherwise hold. Our productivity hacks are like little time machines, allowing us to double up on each minute of the day. One might understandably expect this to make time feel as if it's slowing down, becoming denser,

The greed for speed embodied in the factory clock signalled the triumph of linear time. Now it was the artificial construct of minutes and seconds that mattered rather than the natural cycles of the moon or seasons. The long-term future began to fade away as the present loomed ever larger.