Oliver Burkeman – Time Management for Mortals

There are about 4,000 weeks in a lifetime. It’s a lot easier to make time for things you love when you view the world in weeks, rather than years.

“It’s the citizen’s duty to be informed” was valuable when information was scarce but is now dangerous with limitless information.

Many of us feel “morally obliged” to stay plugged in – even mindlessly scrolling makes us feel like we’ve fulfilled the obligation

The closer technology brings us to the cusp of feeling like we are the gods of our time, the more incredibly offensive it seems to be reminded of all the ways in which we still aren’t. So you get this utterly bizarre situation where the world speeds up and gets more and more efficient, and we have all this technology for saving time, but it doesn’