“time became a thing that you used,” a resource that you could feel bad about mishandling. “The world is already broken,” Burkeman writes, and so is the possibility of your making the most of your time. Despite my airport habits, there are things I want to accomplish in this life. And some of Burkeman’s modest suggestions about how to prioritize things, without simply adding stress about prioritizing things to life, seem well worth trying. I found that reading it — Burkeman might balk at this particular way of describing it — was a good use of my time.

Source: New York Times August 11, 2021 17:26 UTC