One of the biggest literary let downs, in a long time. The author has an interesting premise, but spends the book subtly promoting their own political view. You will lose count of how many times an un-critical, unquestioning view of pandemic, is brought up. (For reasons that are never clear). There are non-subtle jabs at those with different political views as the author holds - which provide no value or benefit to the reader. Really, one of those patronizing books you want to love, with a cool premise. That the author chooses to weave in his political views, is really sad for a subject (life and your time on this planet), that has no reason to be politicized at all. A real intellectually lazy execution of an interesting preimse. What a waste of time reading it.

If you’re looking for a pure time management, get more stuff done, book then go buy Getting Things Done by David Allen. If you’re looking to learn from someone who has already tried GTD and a million other methods of time management and come out on the other side with a deeper appreciation for all that life can be, get this book and spend some leisure time digesting it all. More philosophy than productivity.

Loved all the anecdotes and practical advice.

Their book challenges you to eschew ways of thinking how to get more done, by proclaiming it’s not possible to do it all. Everything is a choice, and focusing on intently making choices, many of which close doors to other opportunities, is where we find what life is all about. A good read, and worthy of reading again to soak it all in!

Very good book on our dilemma with time. Read this in one week and it has me rethinking how I look at time and time management(a misnomer) and approaching my day accepting the present and determining a few essentials.

I’m a really harsh critic of books but what, on the surface, appears to be a book about time management ends up being an existential look on how humans interact with time. Think about trying to understand health without first understanding how the human body works… I’ll recommend this book a lot.

A critique and then helpful reframe of the “time management industrial complex” towards something more aligned with our actual reality as human beings that will die and can’t get everything done. There were new ideas I hadn’t considered previously and old ones I was reminded of. A helpful and thought provoking read.

After three chapters of reading the same thing over and over in different words, I lost interest.