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David Leonhardt • Opinion | You’re Too Busy. You Need a ‘Shultz Hour.’ (Published 2017)
The truly troubling thought, though, is that those of us who’d never dream of choosing a lifestyle like Salcedo’s might nonetheless be guilty of the same basic mistake—of treating our time as something to hoard, when it’s better approached as something to share, even if that means surrendering some of your power to decide exactly what you do with i
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Somehow, with the passage of time, and the deadlines that life imposes, surrendering became the right thing to do.
Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
Blaise Lucey • The Death of Calvin and Hobbes
Delegate.
Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
Sasha Chapin • 50 Things I Know
The first, best chronicler of the chopped-salad economy’s accelerationist nightmare was Matt Buchanan, who wrote at The Awl in 2015:
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Many people these days report the feeling that they begin each morning in a kind of ‘productivity debt,’ which they must struggle to pay off over the course of the day, in hopes of returning to a zero balance by the time evening comes. If they fail – or worse, don’t even try – it’s as though they haven’t quite justified their existence on the plane
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