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Four Thousand Weeks is the Futures Book Club featured read for January!“We live in an age of impossible demands, infinite choice, relentless distraction and spiralling global crises. Yet most productivity advice, like other modern messages about time, makes things worse. It encourages the fantasy that we might one day “get everything done”, becoming the fully optimized, emotionally invincible masters of our time. The pursuit of this limit-denying delusion systematically leaves us more busy, distracted, and isolated from each other – while postponing the truly important parts of life to some point in the future that never quite seems to arrive.”
– Oliver Burkeman describing this book
While a little left of field of our usual futures reads, Four Thousand Weeks invites us to consider the future on a personal scale, and our own relationship with it. I’m chomping at the bit to get into this one!
New reads stick around a while. This book will be discussed in February, March & April. There’s still time to get involved with recently featured booksYou’re welcome to read along on your own, but if you’d like to:
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