Leisure: The Basis of Culture
Leisure is when you pursue the ends instead of the means. Aesthetics, composition, philosophy, self-knowledge, and friendship are all things that are rewarding in their own way. Yet, each one can be bastardized if turned into a means. Is technology inherently a means?
To the philosophers of the ancient world, leisure wasn’t the means to some other end; on the contrary, it was the end to which everything else worth doing was a means.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
LEISURE AND THE GOOD LIFE