Posts tagged "productivity"
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Book Review: Essentialism by Greg McKeown
Read moreIt is possible to read Greg McKeown’s 2014 book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less as a collection of techniques for time management. There is some promise to this approach, as McKeown has gathered together a number of astute observations and suggestions to help readers better manage their priorities. But overall I believe that anyone who truly wants to improve their productivity would do better to skip this book.
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Book Review: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
Read moreEvery once in a while I've looked for a book that presents a cogent and intellectually honest case for finding meaning in life, but without reference to God. My various casual searches were thwarted by the fact that the most prominent books that are tagged as “atheist” tend towards polemic. Since most real people are not polemicists, I judged such books unhelpful for understanding the views of people I might actually talk to. I’d given up looking.