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…

  September 11, 2023

  Arts

  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…

  August 6, 2023

  Etc.

  lists, Oliver Burkeman, productivity