Oliver Burkeman on rejecting productivity hacks to regain focus
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Tiffani Jones Brown Tiffani Jones Brown
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Oliver Burkeman on rejecting productivity hacks to regain focus

For Oliver Burkeman, getting to do meaningful work means embracing the fact that you simply can't do it all. His best-selling book, 4,000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, takes a hard look at the cross-section of time and work and chases it with a large dose of reality: our time is finite and so are the possibilities of what we can do with it-choose wisely. The sentiment is ripe for our current era of remote work, where work is less about punches in a time card and more about the small choices we make every day on where to focus our efforts and attention. Burkeman spoke with Tiffani Jones Brown on what it means to be a recovering productivity junkie, embracing finitude, and practical ways we can better focus in the time that we have.

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