Tag: Oliver Burkeman

• How to make time for art

  I noticed three writers posted about similar things around the same time, so I thought I ought to pay attention… Oliver Burkeman: In the end, the reason actually doing things matters so much isn’t because it’s the right way to raise a successful adult, complete a novel, or achieve some other beneficial future goal. It’s…

  Sep 11, 2023

  # advice, art, Austin Kleon, creativity, Mandy Brown, Oliver Burkeman, time, writing

• A to-do menu

  In the latest issue of his newsletter The Imperfectionist, Oliver Burkeman posits that we should treat our to-do lists more like menus: One great benefit of doing this more consciously, though – of facing the fact that lists are menus – is that it shifts the source of gratification. The reward of pleasure, or a…

  Aug 6, 2023

  # advice, lists, Oliver Burkeman, productivity

• Four Thousand Weeks in the Midnight Library

  Matt Haig’s novel The Midnight Library asks: What if you could explore every what-if of your life, specifically those that turned into regrets? How many of your other lives would actually turn out better than your real one? It’s an intriguing philosophical question that quickly turns personal for the book’s protagonist, Nora Seed, who comes…

  Oct 8, 2021

  # attention, Back to the Future, books, fiction, It’s A Wonderful Life, life, Oliver Burkeman, productivity, quotes, review, synchronicity, time