"The spirit of the times is one of joyless urgency," writes the essayist Marilynne Robinson, who observes that many of us spend our lives "preparing ourselves and our children to be means to inscrutable ends that are utterly not our own." Our struggle to stay on top of everything may serve someone's interests; working longer hours—and using any extra income to buy more consumer goods—turns us into better cogs in the economic machine. But it doesn't result in peace of mind, or lead us to spend more of our finite time on those people and things we care most deeply about.
-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
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