About the author
Oliver Burkeman is a British author and journalist who wrote a long-running Guardian column on psychology, productivity, and the search for a better life. His books tend to distrust systems that promise control over uncertainty.
Four Thousand Weeks turns time management away from efficiency and toward finitude. Burkeman argues that the need to choose, neglect, wait, and coordinate with other people is not a defect that one more productivity method will remove.
Where to start
Start with Four Thousand Weeks. Its estimate of an eighty-year life becomes the basis for a practical philosophy of deciding what deserves limited time.
