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Oliver Burkeman: Four Thousand Weeks (Hardcover, 2021, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 4 stars

The average human lifespan is absurdly, outrageously, insultingly brief: if you live to 80, you …

So refreshing reading this, when all the books I’ve been recommended recently have been about min-maxing your productive potential, and this book flips the question: what are you doing all of this min-maxing for? Why is this important? What IS important to you? How would we all approach life differently after really contemplating (and I mean REALLY) the finality of our lives? Will be thinking about this book for a long time.