Oliver Burkeman

Four Thousand Weeks

Meditation on finite time, mortality, and redefining productivity

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Oliver Burkeman
Oliver Burkeman

British journalist and self-help skeptic whose Four Thousand Weeks applied philosophical thinking about mortality and time to the modern productivity obsession. The Antidote examined the case against positive thinking. His Guardian column about psychology and mental health reached a large audience.

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